Rocks
Plate Tectonics
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
100
The breaking of rocks into sediments.
What is weathering?
100
The name given to the large super-continent that once existed.
What is Pangea?
100
The process that bind rocks together.
What is compaction and cementation?
100
Is how metamorphic rock is formed.
What is exposure to heat and pressure?
200
Is what rocks are made of.
What are minerals?
200
The evidence used by scientists to prove that the continents were once a super-continent.
What are fossils?
200
Rocks changed by heat and pressure into other rocks.
What is metamorphic rocks?
200
Is how sedimentary rock is formed.
What is when bits of rock collect and harden into new rock?
300
Where intrusive igneous rocks form.
What is within the Earth?
300
Is the reason why mountains form in some locations on Earth's surface and not in others .
What is it depends on the kind of plate boundary?
300
The continuous process in which rocks changed from one type of rock to another.
What is the Rock Cycle?
300
The type of boundary in which the plates move away from one another.
What is a divergent boundary?
400
Igneous rocks that have small or no crystals.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
400
The part of the Earth that is divided into tectonic plates.
What is the lithosphere?
400
Are how igneous rocks form.
What is when hot, molten, rock cools and hards?
400
The type of boundary in which the oceanic plates subducts under the continental plate.
What is a convergent boundary?
500
Determines how rocks are classified.
What is how they are formed?
500
The part of the Earth in which tectonic plates are able to move around on.
What is the asthenosphere?
500
The three classifications of rocks.
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.
500
The type of boundary in which stress builds up until one plate slides past another creating an earthquake.
What is a transorm boundary?
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