Tectonic Plate Boundries 1
Large slabs of rock that the continents of earth's crust rest and move on.
Tectonic Plates
Mountains, ridges, and volcanos are created by this boundary.
Convergent Boundary.
This is the process in which rocks change type through several different processes.
The rock cycle.
Outermost layer of the earth.
Crust.
Boundary where tectonic plates move into eachother.
Convergent Boundary.
Fault lines are created by this boundary.
Transform Boundary
This rock is create through the burial and compaction of sediments over time.
Sedimentary rock
This super hot, above ground, flowing substance creates igneous rocks when cooled.
Lava.
Innermost layer of the earth's layers.
Inner Core
Boundary where tectonic plates pull away from eachother.
Divergent Boundary
Divergent Boundary
This rock is created by heat and pressure over time.
Metamorphic rock.
The process of wind, ice, water, or other natural forces breaking down and moving rocks.
Erosion.
The asthenosphere and lithosphere make up this layer of the earth.
Mantle.
Boundary where plates move parallel and against eachother.
Transform Boundary
Tectonic plates sit on this layer of the earth.
Asthenosphere.
This rock is created by the heating, then cooling of rock or magma.
Igneous rock
The term for the change a rock undergoes as it changes into a metamorphic rock. Also used to describe the change from a caterpillar to a butterfly.
Metamorphisis.
Liquid, churning layer of the earth.
Outer core.
Process in which one plate sinks under another at a convergent plate boundary.
Subduction
Subduction occurs when this plate converges with a continental plate.
Oceanic
A sedimentary rock exposed to high pressure and heat will turn into what type of rock?
Metamorphic Rock.
Term for an igneous rock that forms and cools on the inside of the earth's crust.
Intrusive.
This brittle, solid layer of the earth sits above the asthenosphere and where tectonic plates ride.
Lithosphere.