Tectonic Plates
Rocks and Minerals
Plate Boundaries
Earthquakes
Deformation of the Earth's Surface
100
It states that the Earth's outermost layer is fragmented into a dozen or more large and small plates that are moving relative to one another as they ride atop hotter, more mobile material.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
100

It is a surface rock, quickly cooled from lava with small crystals.

What is extrusive rock?

100

These boundaries describe when plates collide into each other.

What is a convergent boundary?

100
It is the source of an earthquake.
What is a focus?
100

This is the process by which mineral components are stripped from rock, leading to sedimentation.

What is weathering?

200
It is the Earth's prehistoric supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
200

This is rock that is formed through cooling of magma underneath the Earth's surface.

What is intrusive igneous rock?

200

This area is responsible for a vast majority of the volcanic and seismic activity in the planet.

What is the Ring of Fire?

200
The area on the surface above the source of an earthquake.
What is an epicentre?
200

A dividing line or crack between two large subunits of rock in which forces are applied.

What is a fault?

300

The boundary which formed the Coast Range and the Rocky Mountains.

What are convergent?

300

Provide all types of rock we learned about in class!

What are metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rock?

300

These plate boundaries describe when plates move away from each other.

What are divergent plate boundaries?

300

A result of convergent plate boundaries of oceanic and continental plates, these areas are responsible for 80+% of all volcanic and seismologic activity on Earth?

What is a subduction zone?

300
The stress applied in a strike-slip fault.
What is shear stress?
400

Describe how lithosphere is created and destroyed.

See board!

400

Metamorphic rocks are formed under these three possible conditions.

What is: 1) high temperature; 2)high pressure; 3)chemical reaction?
400

These convergent boundaries are formed through the collision of a continental and an oceanic plate.

What is a subduction zone?

400

Boundaries between plates in which plates slide against each other, leading to the formation of faults with the same name.

What is a transform plate boundary?

400
The type of fault due to tension.
What is a normal fault?
500
Name all layers of the Earth's sub-surface in the correct order (from the surface inwards).

See board!

500

Things or forces that transport the weathered and eroded rock contribute to this.

What is erosion?

500

This is the semi-plastic layer underneath the crust in which lithospheric plates move on top of.

What is the aesthenosphere?

500
The Richter evaluates this to measure the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the energy produced by the earthquake?
500

This process involves the loss of rock mass due to chemical breakdown of minerals.

What is chemical weathering?

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