Plate tectonics
What geological feature is commonly formed at divergent boundaries in the ocean?
Mid-ocean ridge
The process of sediment turning into sedimentary rock.
Compaction and Cementation.
The man who purposed the theory of continental drift.
Index fossil
The principle that older rock is formed under younger rock.
Superposition
The process that recycles earth's crust.
Subduction
The process that forms metamorphic rock.
Fossils and continental shapes.
The process of populations changing over time that fossils are proof of.
evolution.
A landform that breaks down earths surface.
Destructive landform.
The region in the pacific ocean that has the most earthquakes and volcanos.
the ring of fire.
Rock formed from cooling magma.
The region of the earth that tropical plants grew in.
rock layers or strata.
The place in the middle of a plate where magma comes through the crust.
Hot spot
The material in the core that rises.
Hotter, less dense material.
The process of rock being worn down by ices, rain, and other types of weathering.
Erosion
240 million years ago.
The kind of rock fossils are found in.
Sedimentary
The principle that anything that cuts across rock is newer.
Crosscutting relationships
The result of divergent oceanic plate boundaries.
Seafloor spreading.
The way new igneous rock is formed on earth's surfrace.
volcanic eruptions
The reason the continents drift apart.
Seafloor spreading.
An event that kills a large percent of earth's population.
An extinction event.
Where the new material in the earths surface is found.
mid-ocean ridges