The Rock Cycle
The type of rock formed by cooling and solidification of magma or lava.
What is igneous?
The type of plate boundary where plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
This is the point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus.
What is the epicenter?
These are the three types of soil.
What are Clay, Silt, and Sand?
These are the two types of lithospheric crust.
What is continental and oceanic?
Rocks formed from heat and pressure are classified as this type.
What is metamorphic?
At this type of boundary, plates collide and destroy lithosphere.
What is a convergent boundary?
The molten rock beneath Earth's surface is called this.
What is magma?
This soil texture is best suited for plant life and is a mixture of all three soil types.
What is loam?
This is a common landform found at oceanic-oceanic convergent plate boundaries.
What are trenches?
The process by which sediments are pressed together to form sedimentary rock.
What is compaction/cementation?
This is the only landform feature that will be found at transform boundaries.
What is an earthquake?
This is the scale used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
This soil type is resistant to erosion.
What is clay?
This is the type of stress caused by convergent plate boundaries.
What is compression?
This process breaks rocks down into smaller pieces without changing their composition.
What is physical weathering?
These features often form at oceanic-continental convergent plate boundaries.
What are volcanoes or trenches?
A tsunami can travel in deep ocean waters up to this speed (NOTE: This is the same speed as a jet airplane).
What is 500 mph?
The decayed remains of animal and plant life in soil.
What is humus?
This layer of the Earth is solid due to intense heat and pressure under the crust.
What is the Inner Core?
This is the only type of rock in which fossils are found.
What is sedimentary?
This theory explains the movement of Earth's lithospheric plates.
What is plate tectonics?
These are the types of volcanoes responsible for the formation of the Hawaiian islands.
What is shield?
This term describes the ability of soil to hold water for plants.
What is water retention?
Healthy soil is made of four components, including:
What is minerals, water, air, and organic material?
NOTE: 46% Minerals, 25% water, 25% air, 4% organic matter