Plate Boundaries
The type of boundary where two plates are moving apart.
What is divergent?
The type of rock created by sediments being cemented and compacted together.
What is sedimentary rock?
The break down of rocks.
What is weathering?
The molten rock that spews out of volcanos.
What is lava?
Divergent plate boundaries create this type of landform after many years when water begins to fill it in.
What is an ocean basin?
The type of plate boundary where two plates move past each other.
What is transform?
The type of rock that is created through the cooling of molten rock.
What is igneous rock?
The movement of sediment due to forces like wind and water.
The locations where earthquakes commonly occur.
What are plate boundaries?
What are mountains?
The reason tectonic plates are moving.
The type of rock that is created from other rocks due to heat and pressure?
What are metamorphic rocks?
A type of weathering that breaks down rocks causing them to fully change substances.
What is chemical weathering?
The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus.
What is an epicenter?
Continental-oceanic convergent boundaries are known for creating these on the ocean floor.
What is a deep sea trench?
This type of plate boundary creates thrust faults, folded rocks, powerful earthquakes, and high continental mountain ranges.
What is continental-continental convergent?
A type of extrusive igneous rock that forms through RAPID cooling and contains conchoidal fractering and glass like texture?
What is obsidian?
The type of weathering that breaks down rocks into sediments.
What is mechanical weathering?
What is localized cooling?
Oceanic convergent plate boundaries create this type of landform.
What are volcanic island arcs?
The region where an oceanic plate sinks down into the asthenosphere at a convergent boundary creating volcanic arcs.
What is subduction zone?
This rock type forms from the slow cooling magma inside the earth.
What is intrusive igneous?
This part of the biosphere helps hold soil in place to prevent erosion.
The term for using three points of data to find an earthquake's epicenter.
What is triangulate?
The type of fault occurs along transform boundaries.
What is a strike-slip fault?