ROCK CYCLE AND FORMATION
This rock is formed when lava cools and hardens
What is Igneous Rock?
This process is when rocks break down into smaller pieces due to wind, water or ice.
What is Weathering?
This type of landform is created when lava cools and hardens on the Earth’s surface, forming a large, steep-sided mountain.
What is a Composite volcano?
Where two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally, often causing earthquakes.
What is Strike-slip fault?
This rock is formed from layers of sediment that are compressed over time
What is Sedimentary Rock?
This type of weathering happens when water freezes inside cracks in rocks, causing them to break apart.
What is Frost Wedging?
The name of the large, bowl-shaped depression found at the top of a volcano.
What is a crater?
The term for the sudden shaking of the ground caused by the movement of tectonic plates along faults.
What is an earthquake?
This process causes existing rocks to change into Metamorphic rocks through heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphism?
This type of erosion happens when water in rivers or streams carries away small pieces of rock and soil.
What is Water Erosion?
The term for a large, flat landform created by lava flows from a volcano.
What is Lava plateau?
The point on Earth's surface directly above the place where an earthquake begins.
What is Epicenter?
This rock is created when layers of sediment accumulate and cement together, often containing fossils.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
Erosion can happen slowly over time, like the formation of a canyon, or quickly, like after a flood.
What is true?
The type of volcano has gentle slopes and erupts with non-explosive lava flows.
What is Shield volcano?
Earthquakes can only happen at tectonic plate boundaries.
What is false?
This rock forms when existing rocks are in to intense heat and pressure deep within the Earth, causing them to change in texture and composition.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
One example of chemical weathering.
What is a rock dissolves in acid rain?
A caldera is a large crater that forms when a volcano erupts and the top collapses inward.
What is true?
This device is used to measure the strength and intensity of an earthquake.
What is Seismometer?