A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals, or organic matter
What is a rock?
The three main types of plate boundaries
What are divergent, convergent, and transform?
The removal and transport of material from one place to another.
What is Erosion?
The type of convergence that creates mountains that are not volcanoes.
What is Continental-Continental convergence?
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What is the Joe?
A sedimentary made of fragments of rock cemented together with calcite or quartz.
What is Clastic Sedimentary Rock?
Underwater earthquakes can cause this massive disaster.
What is a Tsunami?
The process of breaking down rocks.
What is Weathering?
The shape of volcano that is formed from loose material such as ash and cinders.
What is a Cinder Cone Volcano?
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What is Pine?
Rock that is heated by nearby magma.
What is contact metamorphism?
The point beneath the surface where the rocks break and move.
What is the Focus?
Most destructive type of mass movement.
What is a landslide?
A volcano that will never erupt again.
What is an extinct volcano.
What is 5/6?
Light-colored igneous rocks that are rich in elements such as aluminum, potassium, silicon, and sodium
What are Felsic igneous rocks?
The measure of the energy released by an earthquake.
What is the Magnitude?
Sediments that are deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake building up a landform.
What is a Delta?
Where plumes in the mantle where hot material is rising that are not associated with plate boundaries.
What are mantle hot spots?
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What is the Nutcracker Suite?
The characteristics of how we categorize rocks.
What is how they are formed, their composition, and texture?
The record of the Earthquakes waves is called this.
What is a seismogram?
Fine, wind-blown sediment like silt and clay.
What is Loess?
Mount Vesuvius and Mount St. Helens are examples of this type of volcano.
What is Composite Volcano?
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