Tectonic Plates 1
In this type of boundary, plates are moving towards each other.
Convergent plate boundaries
The type of plate boundary where plates are moving away from each other
What is a divergent boundary?
True or false: Any type of rock can become any other type of rock.
What is true?
The molten rock found below the Earth'ssurface.
What is magma?
Where tectonic plates interact
What are Boundaries/Faults?
They type of crust that Massachusetts is on.
What is the molten rock layer of the earth called?
What is the mantle?
The names of the 3 types of rocks
What are sedimentary, igneus and metamorphic?
The breaking down of large rocks into smaller pieces on the surface of the earth.
What is erosion?
This happens when magma cools down
What is it becomes solid rock?
The cracks in the earth where plates slide against one another
What are plate boundaries or faults?
This happens when an oceanic crust and a continental plate converge.
The oceanic plate subducts go under the continental plate
Metamorphic rocks form through these 2 things.
What are heat and pressure?
Where the oldest rocks on earth are found
What is the lowest layer/bottom of the crust?
Transform boundaries create/cause this
What are Earthquakes?
Divergent plate boundaries create this
Mid ocean ridges
The names of the 3 different types of plate boundaries
What are convergent, divergent, and transform (slip-strike)?
The typical length of time it takes a rock to go through the entire rock cycle.
What is about 20 Million years?
The term used to show that sediments are settled or dropped in a particular area.
What is deposition?
The type of area in the Atlantic where seafloor spread is happening
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
What do oceanic to oceanic convergent plate boundaries create?
Underwater volcanoes and Islands
The type of plates and boundaries that formed the Hemalayan Mountains.
What are convergent contintal plates?
The two types of erosion that can occur
What are physical erosion and chemical erosion?
The study of rocks, their history and the processes that form and change them.
What is geology?