The outermost layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
Plate boundary where plates slide past each other.
What is transform?
Type of rock formed from molten rock cooling.
What is igneous rock?
The process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
Process of breaking down rock with physical force.
What is mechanical weathering?
The innermost part of Earth, made up of nickel and Iron, acts like a giant magnet.
What is the core?
Plate boundary where plates crash into each other.
What is convergent?
Molten rock above ground.
What is lava?
What small pieces of broken-down rock gets called.
What is sediment?
Process of breaking down rock on a molecular level.
What is chemical weathering?
Second layer of Earth, made up of molten rock and drives natural processes going on in the Earth.
What is the mantle?
Plate boundary where plates move away from each other.
What is divergent?
Molten rock underground.
What is magma?
Rock formed when smaller pieces of rock get cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock.
When broken-down pieces of rock get transported by water.
What is erosion?
Belief that Earth's surface developed over short time from random disasters.
What is catastrophism?
The driving force of Earth's processes that goes on in the mantle.
What is convection?
Type of igneous rock formed from lava cooling; forms fine-grained rocks.
What is extrusive?
Rock formed when it gets changed and deformed through extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
What happens when bits of land gets chipped or scraped off due to plate activity.
What is shearing?
Assumption that Earth's surface developed over billions of years because of natural, regular, ongoing processes.
What is uniformitarianism?
When a plate gets overridden by another plate and forced into the mantle to get recycled.
What is subduction?
Type of igneous rock formed from magma cooling; forms coarse-grained rocks.
What is intrusive?
Sedimentary rock gets deposited in layers. These layers are called this term.
What is strata?
The term for the process of changing a rock with heat and pressure.
What is metamorphosis?