Severe Weather
Plate Tectonics
Definitions
Changes to Earth
Rock Cycle and Pangaea
100

This happens when plates collides or rub against each other.

What is an earthquake?

100
The surface of the earth is broken into about this many pieces.
What are twenty?
100

This is when new crust is formed and is destroyed at coean floors. 

What is the sea floor spreading?

100
This is what we call the process of breaking down and changing rocks.
What is weathering?
100
This type of rock is formed from lava that has cooled.
What is igneous?
200

When Magma comes up out of the earth.

What is the volcano?

200
This is a landform created by the movement of plates, allowing LAVA to escape.
What is a volcano?
200

This is when the crust of earth is build up on each other.

What is the convergent boundary?

200

One feature left from glaciers.

What are arete, cirque, u-shaped valley, horn, and hanging valley?

200
This type of rock is formed from layers of sediment (sand and dirt).
What is sedimentary?
300

Name one hazard of volcanoes

3 different answers are an option

300
This is a landform caused by plates colliding with one another.
What is a mountain?
300

This is the settlement of dirt/earth's materials from weather. 

What is the sediment?

300

This is the main cause of erosion.

What is moving water?

300
This type of rock forms when another type of rock is exposed to extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
400

These form from cold and warm, wet heat mixing in a perfect funnel.

What is a tornado?

400
This natural disaster is caused by plates rubbing against each other.
What is an earthquake?
400
This is the moving of weathered rock or soil.
What is erosion?
400
Name at least one cause of weathering.
What are wind, water, ice, chemicals, and living things?
400
This is how fossils form in rocks.
What are dead animals and plants getting buried in sediment, which later becomes a layer of rock?
500

List 4 typers of severe weather.

What are Tornados, Blizzards, Droughts, Floods, Hurricanes?

500
True or false: all of the earth's plates have both continental and oceanic crust.
What is false?
500
This is the dropping of materials moved by erosion.
What is deposition?
500
Name at least one type of land that is created by deposition.
What are deltas, beaches, and sand dunes?
500
This is one piece of evidence to prove that all the continents used to be connected.
What are fossils, coal deposits, mountains, and glaciers?
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