Rocks
Continent Shift
Plates
Subduction
Random
100
What type of rock is formed from magma and lava cooling.
Igneous
100
The lithosphere is broken up into pieces called what?
tectonic plates
100
This type of plate boundary involves plates colliding
Convergent
100
What is the area around the globe that produces the most volcanoes called?
Ring of Fire
100
A part of the lithosphere that rises up is called...
Uplift
200
What type of rock undergoes weathering, erosion, and deposition.
Sedimentary
200
What process under the ocean causes the continents to move apart?
Sea-floor Spreading
200
This type of plate boundary involves plates dividing
Divergent
200
What two types of lava are there?
Smooth and Chunky
200
These are the two types of igneous rock.
Extrusive and Intrusive
300
What type of rock undergoes heat and pressure?
Metamorphic
300
Who was the person to discover continental drift?
Alfred Wegener
300
This type of plate boundary involves plates moving past one another (or horizontally)
Transform
300
What type of plate boundary is found along the Ring of Fire?
Convergent, ocean to continent
300
This is what organic sedimentary rock is made out of.
fossils/living things
400
When the lithosphere sinks into the ground, what forms?
Subsidence
400
_________ zones will result in Hawaii colliding with Alaska.
Subduction
400
These are the three types of convergent plate boundaries.
Ocean to ocean continent to continent ocean to continent (or vice versa)
400
What causes the mantle to melt in a subduction zones?
Water from the seafloor
400
This process is what causes the mantle to move.
Convection
500
What is a giant crack in Earth's crust where magma rises and igneous rock forms?
Rift valley/mid-ocean ridge
500
Name three pieces of evidence of plate tectonics.
Continents are like puzzle pieces Mountain ranges align Fossils
500
What types of events happen at convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries? (list one for each)
check answers
500
What causes the difference between chunky and smooth sediment?
Silica
500
This process results in minerals becoming parallel.
Foliation
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