When sediment is weathered/eroded/deposited then lithified
What is sedimentary rocks?
100
When the outer edge is more dense it will be pulled back into the asthenosphere
What is Slab Pull?
200
Between the lithosphere and mantle.
What is asthenophere.
200
What is made out of pyroclastic solids and thick magma.
What is cinder cone.
200
Point on earth's surface directly above the focus
What is the epicenter
200
Rock that is formed from Metamorphism
What is Metamorphic Rock?
200
The time between the S wave and P wave
What is S-P Interval
300
A place where plate tectonics meet.
What is Plate Boundries.
300
Volcano that has a gentle slope and eruption.
What is sheild volcano.
300
A scale measuring the strength of an earthquake
What is the Richter Scale
300
When magma is cooled and solidified (crystallized)
What is igneous rocks?
300
Theory that Earth's lithosphere is divded into tectonic plates that move around on top of asthenosphere
What is Plate Tectonics
400
Forms volcanic islands.
What is Oceanic Oceanic Boundry.
400
Magma that is thin and runny.
What is mafic.
400
The tracing of an Earthquake's motion by a seismograph
What is a seismogram
400
The shaving of the crayons in the lab
What is Weathering?
400
Sedimentary Rock formed from fragments of preexisting rock
What is Clastic Rock
500
The boundry when two tectonic plates seperate.
What is Divergent Boundries.
500
Mount Saint Helens type.
What is Composite volcano.
500
When the stress built up from friction in the crust becomes too great causing a release in energy as the deformed crust tries to snap back to its original shape
What is elastic rebound?
500
The texture of metamorphic rock in which the mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands
What is foliated?
500
Heat from convection has lifted lithosphere, the ridge pushes downhill becase of gravity