Plates
Earthquakes occur on this type plate boundary.
What are transform boundaries?
These 3 processes are part of the Rock Cycle.
What is Weathering, Erosion & Deposition?
the process that turns any kind of rock into metamorphic rock
What is heat and pressure?
This evidence found in the layers of the Earth on many continents helps to support the theory of continental drift.
What are fossils?
in 1912 the meteorologist Alfred Wegener amply described what he called continental drift, expanded in his 1915 book The Origin of Continents and Oceans
What is evolution of plate tectonics theory?
This is what the Supercontinent was called before the plates drifted apart.
What is Pangea?
Breaking down and wearing away of rocks
What is weathering?
rock formed for heating and cooling magma
What is Igneous Rock?
Rocks that are higher up are younger than the rocks that are below them, this is called.
What is the Law of Superposition?
This drives the motion of the plates.
What is convection within Earths mantle?
This natural disasters begin in the ocean and end on land, depending on how strong it is.
What are tsunamis?
The movement of sediments and broken down materials.
What is erosion?
rock formed for particles of sand, fossils, sediments, and pebbles
What is sedimentary rock?
I am old and you are younger. This terminology is know as which kind of dating.
What is Relative?
These types of landforms are formed by convergent plate boundaries.
What is deep-ocean trench, volcanoes, and mountains?
The plates are moving on this layer of Earth, which is composed of the crust and the upper mantle.
What is the Lithosphere?
When sand and sediments settle on bottom of body of water
What is deposition?
process of rocking turning into magma
What is melting?
This is how scientists absolute date rocks, to determine their actual and precise age.
What is radioactive dating?
These types of landforms are formed by divergent plate boundaries.
What is rift valley and mid ocean ridge?
Alfred Wegener is the scientist who came up with this theory.
What is continental drift theory?
Hurricanes are the leading cause of this process in Florida. (Hint: Location and Process)
What is Beach Erosion?
rock formed from intense pressure and heat deep in the earths surface
What is Metamorphic Rock?
The Pacific Ocean is surrounded by tectonic plates that have volcanoes and mountains, this region is known as.
What is "The Ring of Fire"?