What are the different types of plate boundaries?
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform
_______________, _______________, Deposition, Compaction, and Cementation form Sedimentary Rock
Weathering and Erosion
Most common method of lithifying coarse grained sediments. Hint last step of sedimentary rock formation
What is Cementation
in 1912 the meteorologist Alfred Wegener described what he called continental drift, expanded in his 1915 book The Origin of Continents and Oceans. What theory came from Wegener's research
What is the plate tectonic theory
Where are earthquakes most common
Plate boundaries
Metamorphic rock with layers
Foliated
the gradual destruction of rocks due to weathering forms what type of rock
Sedimentary
metamorphic rock without layers
What is nonfoliated
What types of landforms do convergent plate boundaries form?
What is volcanoes
What is one piece of evidence Wegner used to support his theory?
Puzzle-like fit of continents, rocks, climate
Melting and Cooling
What event happens at transform plate boundaries?
Earthquakes
Foliated and nonfoliated
the process by which igneous rocks are formed
What is melting and cooling
This restaurant has the best rolls
Texas Roadhouse