Plates 1
Divergent boundaries, Convergent boundaries, and transform boundaries
What are the different types of plate boundaries?
What is the outermost layer of the earth?
What is the crust?
What part of the rock cycle generates sediments from erosion and weathering?
What is sedimentation
When sediments are "glued" together in the rock cycle.
What is Cementation?
The processes that can turn any type rock into sediment
What are weathering and erosion (sedimentation)?
Harry Hess is credited with what theory?
What is the theory of seafloor spreading?
Plates that move toward each other
What are convergent boundaries?
Wearing away of rocks
What is weathering?
Process when sediments are "squeezed" together in the formation of sedimentary rock
What is compaction?
Rock formed from compaction and cementation
What is sedimentary rock
What process drives plate tectonics?
What is convection current within Earth's mantle?
Which natural disaster triggers a tsunami?
What are earthquakes?
The movement of sediment after weathering has occurred.
What is erosion?
The 2 processes that form metamorphic rock
What is heat and pressure?
This is formed when molten rock quickly cools.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
The location where the more dense plate slides under a less dense plate
What is subduction zone?
The type of boundary where crust is created.
What is a divergent boundary?
When sediment is dropped or settles out after erosion has occurred.
What is a deposition?
What is the process of rocks turning into magma?
What is melting?
Rock formed when magma slowly cools
What is intrusive igneous rock?
The mid-Atlantic ridge is formed by what type of plate boundaries?
What is divergent?
What theory is Alfred Wegener credited with coming up with?
What is continental drift theory?
The 4 types of forces responsible for erosion on Earth?
What are water, wind, glaciers, and gravity?
The 2 process by which igneous rocks are formed
What is melting and crystallization/cooling?
What type of rock are fossils typically found in?
What is sedimentary rock?