Plates
Plates
Cycle Rock
Cycle Rock
Rock Cycle
100

Divergent boundaries, Convergent boundaries, and transform boundaries

What are the different types of plate boundaries?

100

What is the outermost layer of earth?

What is the crust?

100
What part of the rock cycle generates sediments from erosion and weathering?
What is uplift and exposure
100
Most common method of lithifying coarse grained sediments
What is Cementation
100
the process that turns any kind of rock into metamorphic rock
What is heat and pressure
200

Alfred Wegener described what he called continental drift in his 1915 book The Origin of Continents and Oceans

What is the theory of plate tectonics?

200

Plates that move toward each other

What are convergent boundaries

200
Wearing away of rocks
What is weathering
200
process of lithification for fine sediments
What is Compaction Lithification
200
rock formed for heating and cooling magma
What is Igneous Rock
300

What drives plate motion?

What is convection within Earth's mantle.

300

Which natural disasters can a tsunami?

What are earthquakes and volcanoes

300
the gradual destruction of rocks due to weathering
What is eroison
300
process of loose sediment hardening to form rock
What is Lithification
300
rock formed for particles of sand, fossils, sediments, and pebbles
What is sedimentary rock
400

What happens when a plate slides under another in convergent boundaries?

What is subduction?

400

What are the seven major plates?

What is North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Indo-Australian, Pacific and Antarctica

400
occurs during changes in the earth or natural disasters
What is transportation
400

What is the process of rocks turning into magma?

What is melting?

400

rock formed from intense pressure and heat deep in the earths surface

What is Metamorphic Rock

500

The mid Atlantic ridge is formed by what type of plate boundaries?

What is divergent?

500
What theory did Alfred Wegener come up with?
What is continental drift theory
500
When sand and sediments settle on bottom of body of water
What is deposition
500
the process by which igneous rocks are formed
What is crystallization
500

Name an extrusive igneous rock

What is pumice?

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