Rock Cycle
How many process are in the Rock Cycle.
What is...5 processes?
How many plate boundaries there are.
What is...3 types of boundaries?
An idea used to explain something.
What is...a theory?
This scientist was originally from this country.
What is...Germany?
This natural disaster occurs in a transform boundary.
What is...an Earthquake?
When magma cools and hardens it turns into this.
What is...igneous rock?
When plates slide past one another.
What is...a transform boundary?
The name of the supercontinent that once existed.
What is...pangea?
Animals matching on continents served as this type of evidence for his theory.
What are...fossils?
We used this candy to demonstrate rocks in the rock cycle.
What are...starbursts?
The process needed to create sediment.
What is...weathering and erosion?
A type of zone when two plates collide.
What is...a subduction zone?
The name of the man who came up with the Theory of Plate Tectonics.
Who is...Alfred Wegener?
Alfred was this type of scientists.
What is...a meteorologist?
This landform takes shape in a subduction zone.
What is...a deep ocean trench?
What makes the rock cycle a cycle.
What is...there is no starting or stopping point, and goes on forever in any direction?
This causes plate movement.
What is...convection currents?
The plates moving on magma are thought to move like this.
What is... a conveyer belt?
People did not believe Alfred for this reason.
What is... he came up with a theory in a field that was not his expertise.
Heat from this area causes the convection currents to move.
What is...the core of Earth?
All rocks come from this original starting point.
What is...magma from the mantle?
The landform that takes shape in a divergent boundary.
What is...a mid-ocean ridge?
Another name for Alfred Wegener's theory.
What is...Continental Drift Theory?
The final piece of evidence used to support Alfred's theory.
What is...continents fitting like puzzle pieces, or, mountain and coal deposits matching on separate continents?
When rock minerals go through change due to heat and pressure.
What is...metamorphism?