Tectonic Plates
WEATHERING/EROSION
Vocabulary 1
Rock Cycle
MISC...
100
PLATE BOUNDARIES
What is TECTONIC PLATES INTERACT AT...?
100
What is when freezing and thawing, plants, wind, and pressure cause rocks to break into smaller pieces?
Define weathering
100
WHAT IS WEATHERING?
The natural processes that breaks down rocks without transporting them?
100
What is magma?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likly make from this type of molten rock.
100
WHAT IS THE NUCLEUS?
$ 100 -THIS THE "CONTROL CENTER" OF A CELL.
200
WHAT ARE TECTONIC PLATES?
What is THE EARTH'S CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE ARE BROKEN INTO ENORMOUS SLABS CALLED?
200
What is flowing water is the biggest cause of erosion? Waves, wind, and ice can also cause erosion.
Define what causes erosion.
200
1. What is erosion? 2. What is deposition?
The transportation of weathered rocks from one place to another. 2. The dropping off of weathered rock at the end of erosion?
200
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
200
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
300
SUPERCONTINENT THAT EXISTED 200 MILLION YEARS AGO.
WHAT IS PANGAEA?
300
WATER ENTERS TINY CRACKS IN ROCKS, EXPAND AS IT FREEZES, AND ENLARGES THE TINY CRACKS. oVER MANY YEARS, ICE CAN SPLIT A LARGE BOULDER.
How can ice change land?
300
1. What is physical weathering? 2. What is chemical weathering?
1. The processes that change the size and shape of rocks without changing them chemically. 2. What is the process in which rocks break down due to chemical changes to the minerals.
300
What is pressure?
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
300
Atmosphere, Lithosphere, Hydrosphere
What are the three layer of the Earth that are visible from space?
400
WHEN PLATES MOVE AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER A ________ ________ BOUNDARY IS FORMED. (HINT: MOSTLY FOUND ON THE OCEAN FLOOR)
WHAT IS A DIVERGENT BOUNDARY?
400
What are: 1. Some soils and rocks erode faster than others because of their hardness 2. The size of the rock will also affect its erosion 3. The strength of the wind or water will affect the speed of erosion, and 4. plants can affect how quickly soil erodes?
Define what affects erosion.
400
1. What is Earth's crust? 2. What is Earth's plates?
1. The outermost layer of Earth. 2. An extremely large, moving slabs of rock that form Earth's crust?
400
What are intrusive and extrusive rocks?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types. (inside the volcant & outside the volcano)
400
What are heat and pressure?
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
500
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain formation.
What are some events caused by plate movement?
500
WHAT IS PHYSICAL WEATHERING HAPPENS WHEN SUCH THINGS AS WIND AND ROCK BREAK ROCKS DOWN? THE PHYSICAL WEATHERING BREAK DOWN CAUSES THE ROCKS TO CHANGE IN SIZE AND SHAPE. THE CHEMICALS THAT MAKE UP THE ROCKS DO NOT CHANGE. TWO EXAMPLES ARE WHEN A TREE ROOT COMES UP THROUGH A ROCK AND BREAKS IT APART. ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS WHEN WATER DROPS ON A ROCK AND CAUSES A HOLE.
Define physical weathering and give one example.
500
What is an Earthquake?
SUDDEN SHAKING OR TREMBLING IN EARTH'S CRUST.
500
What is erosion?
The movement of sediment.
500
Crust, Mantle, Core...Crust is the coolest & Core is the hottest.
What are the three layers of the Earth? Which is coolest and which is hottest?
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