Earth Materials
This type of rock is created from sediment being compacted and cemented together over a long time.
Sedimentary Rock
This theory says that the surface of the Earth is made of large chunks of rock floating on the mantle.
Tectonic Plate Theory
New seafloor is created at these where magma rises through separating tectonic plates.
This geoscience process is when rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.
Weathering
Weathering, erosion, earthquakes, tectonic plate movement, and volcanic eruptions are all examples of this type of process.
Geoscience Process
This type of rock is created when magma or lava cools or crystalizes into a solid.
Igneous Rock
These are the two types of tectonic plates.
Continental and Oceanic Plates
This process occurs when an oceanic plate and continental plate collide, pushing the oceanic plate into the mantle.
Subduction
This process is when sediment is moved to a new location, usually by wind, water, ice, or gravity.
Erosion
This type of rock is created when an existing rock goes through heat and pressure.
Metamorphic Rock
This cycle moves rocks on and under Earth's crust.
The Rock Cycle
These are the remains of dead organisms that have mineralized over long periods of time.
Fossils
Old seafloor is destroyed at these, which are deep areas created by subducting oceanic plates.
Trenches
This rapid event is caused by tectonic plates slowly moving and building up pressure over time.
Earthquake
This type of plate boundary is when the plates move towards each other.
Convergent Boundary
The size of crystals in igneous rock are determined by this factor.
Cooling speed
Finding the same fossils on different continents supports this theory.
Continental Drift Theory
Seafloor spreading occurs at this type of plate boundary.
Divergent Boundary
Volcanoes are commonly found at these locations because of tectonic movement.
Plate Boundaries
This is the thin, outermost layer of the Earth.
The Crust
Weathering and erosion are the reverse of these two processes involving sediment and sedimentary rock.
Compaction and Cementation
These three types of evidence support the Continental Drift Theory.
Matching fossils, rocks, and continental edges
Seafloor structures like ocean ridges and trenches provide evidence that these are moving.
Tectonic Plates
This process happens when tectonic plates collide at convergent boundaries and create mountain ranges.
Uplift
Mountain ranges found along plate boundaries will increase in size because the plates are doing this.
Colliding with each other