Plate Tectonics
Volcanism
Weathering and Soil
Rock Formation
Earth's Interior
100
What are the 2 different types of crust on Earths surface?
Oceanic and continental crust.
100
At a mid-ocean ridge lava moves upward and fills in the cracks as the plates move _____.
What is away from each other?
100
_____ takes place when minerals within rocks are not stable in their existing environment.
What is chemical weathering?
100
What are the classes of rocks?
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?
100
This rigid layer is made up of the crust and the outer most layer of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
200
The following image demonstrates what type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
Volcanoes that form along a mid-ocean ridge occur at _____ boundary.
What is divergent plate boundary?
200
The removal of rock particles by wind, water, ice, and gravity.
What is erosion?
200
The series of processes in which rock changes from one type to another.
What is rock cycle?
200
This layer, known as the _______, is the softest part of the mantle.
What is the asthenosphere.
300
What are some evidence of the plate tectonics theory?
What is shape of continents, fossils, rock types and ancient climate patterns?
300
Gases trapped in the magma under _____ provide the force for volcanic eruptions.
What is pressure?
300
The most important factors that determine the rate at which weathering occurs are _____ and _____.
What is the type of rock and the climate?
300
A ____ ____ is a area where a set of deep cracks forms.
What is a Rift Zone?
300
The Earth's crust is made up of these two types of rock.
What is basalt and granite?
400
Who developed the theory of continental drift?
Who is Alfred Wegner?
400
Underneath a deep ocean trench is where ________ are located and many volcanoes are formed.
What is a subduction zone?
400
What is the name of soil found in the B horizon?
What is subsoil?
400
Rock formed as pieces of older rocks and other loose materials get pressed or cemented together or as dissolved minerals re-form and build up in layers.
What is a sedimentary rock?
400
Vibrations that travel through the Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake.
What are seismic waves.
500
This word describes the action of one plate moving below another plate into the mantle
What is subduction?
500
Thin, sloped-shape, runny lava and quiet explosions produce _________ volcanoes.
What is a shield volcano?
500
Three examples of chemical weathering.
What is acid rain, lichens on rocks, oxidation?
500
In igneous rocks, the texture is determined by various factors, including the __ rate and __ rate.
What is cooling and diffusion?
500
How does convection move earths plates?
What is the core heats the mantle, it becomes less dense and rises then cools down and creates a current.