Rock Cycle
Mountain Building
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
100
The type of rock made from compressed sediment.
What is sedimentary rock?
100
When rocks bend, but do not break.
What is a fold?
100
A violent shaking underground due to a release of energy caused by the sudden movement of rocks.
What is an earthquake?
100
The opening in a volcano.
What is a vent?
100
The innermost layer of earth.
What is the core or inner core?
200
The breaking down of rock by wind, water, rain, or ice.
What is weathering?
200
What happens when a rock is weaker than the forces or stress exerted upon it, and it breaks.
What is a fault?
200
A break in Earth's crust along which blocks of rocks move during an earthquake.
What is a fault?
200
The type of volcano that has gently sloping sides, and erupts non-violently.
What is a shield volcano?
200
Earth's lithosphere broken into pieces.
What are tectonic plates?
300
The type of rock made from extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
The type of mountain formed from breaking rocks.
What is a fault-block mountain?
300
The place WITHIN Earth where the earthquake first occurs.
What is the focus?
300
Molten rock WITHIN Earth's surface.
What is magma?
300
The theory that the continents were once joined but gradually drifted apart due to tectonic plate movement.
What is Continental Drift Theory.
400
A hard substance that is an aggregate, or mixture, of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
400
A fault caused by shear stress.
What is a strike-slip fault?
400
The place on the Earth's surface directly ABOVE where the Earthquake occurred.
What is the epicenter?
400
The ash, rocks, and cinders that can be ejected from volcanoes during an explosive eruption.
What is pyroclastic material?
400
The location where one plate is pulled under another at a convergent boundary.
What is a subduction zone?
500
The 5 processes by which other rocks can be turned into sedimentary rock. (List in order that they would occur)
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction & cementation.
500
The boundary that normal faults are most likely to occur at.
What is a divergent boundary?
500
The boundary at which earthquakes can be caused by shear stress.
What is a transform boundary?
500
The two types of volcanoes that can eject pyroclastic material.
What are cinder cone volcanoes AND composite volcanoes.
500
The process by which material in Earth's mantle moves due to changes in temperature and density.
What is mantle convection?
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