Layers of the Earth
Weathering and Erosions
Plate Boundaries
More Plate Boundaries
Rock Cycle
100
The thinnest layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
100
Freezing and thawing and plant roots are major causes of this type of weathering.
What is physical weathering?
100
This type of boundary is where two plates spread apart.
What is divergent?
100
This type of boundary is where two plates come together.
What is convergent?
100
This type of rock is formed from cooled magma.
What is igneous rock?
200
The inner and outer core is made of this.
What is nickel and iron.
200
Acid rain, rust, and plants growing on objects are this type of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?
200
This type of boundary is where plates slide past each other.
What is a transforming boundary?
200
Volcanoes and trenches form when one plate ____________ under another.
What is subducts.
200
This type of rock is formed with heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
This layer moves because of convection currents.
What is the mantle?
300
This is the major erosion agent on Earth.
What is water?
300
This is the famous location where many volcanoes and earthquakes have happened that proves the Pacific plate is one large, moving plate.
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
This mountain range is a folded range where a continent meets a continent.
What is the Himalayas?
300
Weathering and erosion make this.
What is sediment?
400
This happens to the temperature of the layers as they get closer to the surface.
What is they get cooler?
400
The sand dunes in a dessert are evidence of this erosion agent.
What is wind?
400
The newest ocean floor is created by ___________ and located in the ________ Ocean.
What is divergent boundary or sea-floor spreading in the Atlantic Ocean?
400
Volcanoes happen at these two plate boundaries. (Be specific.)
What are divergent and convergent with subduction zones?
400
Sedimentary rock is formed by these processes.
What is cementation and compaction?
500
This layer of the Earth is all liquid.
What is the outer core?
500
This can be used to prevent erosion.
What is planting grass and trees.
500
This is the plate that is sliding past the North American plate to create the San Andreas fault line in California.
What is the Juan de Fuca plate?
500
Of earthquakes or volcanoes, which is considered a constructive force? (Versus a destructive force...)
What is a volcano because it creates new land as it cools into igneous rock?
500
Volcanic islands are mostly made of this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
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