Rocks/Rock Cycle
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes/Earthquake
Layers of the Earth
Misc.
100
What are the 3 types of rocks
What is Sedimentary, Igneous, Metamorphic
100
Idea that preceded Plate Tectonics, proposed by Alfred Wegener
What is Continental Drift
100
Very violent volcano depicted in Dante's Peak
What is Composite Cone
100
Name the thickest layer
What is mantle
100
Compared to the upper mantle, the lower mantle is much more _______.
What is dense
200
What process breaks rocks into sediments
What is weathering
200
Motions within the asthenosphere that provides the energy for the plates to move
What is Convection Currents
200
Earthquakes are caused by a __________ boundary
What is Transform
200
The crust is also know as the....
What is lithosphere
200
The top of a mountain or volcano
What is Summit
300
Set of processes and relationships that displays how rocks are created, destroyed, and reformed
What is Rock Cycle
300
A boundary where lithospheric plates are moving past one another
What is Transform
300
Volcanoes are formed at _____________ boundaries
What is Covergent
300
The portion of the core that determines the Electromagentic Field
What is Outer Core
300
A circular crater that appears after a volcano has erupted and is caused by unstability and collapse
What is Caldera
400
Metamorphic rocks with a banded appearance
What is Foliated
400
Boundary that produces mid oceanic ridges
What is Divergent Boundary
400
The Hawaiian islands are volcanoes that did not form at convergent boundaries but at ____ _______.
What is Hot Spots
400
Compared to the oceanic crust, the continental crust is much ________ &__________.
What is Older and Thicker
500
An igneous rock that has cooled very rapidly will have a __________ texture
What is Glassy
500
At a convergent boundary, an oceanic plate sinks below a continental plate because of a difference in _________.
What is Density
500
Cinder cones only produce _______ _____ eruptions
What is pyroclastic material/flow
500
As you travel towards the core, what two properties increase
What is Pressure, Density, Temp.
500
Type of sedimentary rock formed from the sediments of other weathered rocks
What is Clastic
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