Plate Tectonics
This provides evidence for the movement of Earth’s continents over time.
What is matching rock layers and mountain ranges across continents
This evidence best supports the idea that Earth and meteorites formed from the same materials
What is similar mineral compositions?
This drives the movement of tectonic plates.
What is convection currents in the mantle.
This process is most responsible for mountain formation over millions of years.
What is plate movement?
This is the role that water plays in the Rock Cycle.
What is weathering and erosion?
This type of plate boundary forms new oceanic crust.
What is a divergent boundary?
This is the event that occurred earliest in Earth’s history.
A. Formation of oceans
B. Appearance of oxygen in the atmosphere
C. Differentiation into core, mantle, and crust
D. Development of complex life
What is differentiation into core, mantle, and crust?
This happens during mantle convection, material near the core becomes...
What is hotter and rises because it’s less dense?
This landform is created when two continental plates collide.
What is mountain range?
This is when water freezes in cracks of rocks and expands, it causes...
What is mechanical weathering?
This is what oceanic crust compared to comtintial crust.
What is thinner and denser.
This is what the process that caused Earth’s layers (core, mantle, crust) to form is called.
What is differentiation?
This correctly describes a convection current movement.
What is hot material rises and collapses material sinks?
This surface feature forms where an oceanic plate sinks under a continental plate.
What is ocean trench?
This property of water allows it to dissolve many substances--it makes it the universal solvent?
What is waters polarity?
This is the the process where denser oceanic crust sinks beneath lighter continental crust is called.
What is subduction?
This is the evidence that scientists use from meteorites to study Earth’s early history.
What is the compositions and radiocative isotopes?
This is what the cycling of matter in Earth’s mantle affects the surface by causing...
What is plate movement and volcanic activity?
This is an example of a process operating at a slow temporal scale?
What is mountain building, the rock cycle, anything that takes a LONG TIME?
This is the ability of water to move upward through small spaces in soil.
This is what the theory of plate tectonics explain.
What is the formation of continents and earthquakes?
In this mechanical layer of Earth convection mainly occurs.
What is the Asthenosphere?
This is how convection currents in the mantle drive plate tectonics.
What is they push and pull plates on the crust above them?
This surface process operates on the fastest timescale.
What is volcanic eruption, earthquakes, anything that happens quickly?
This best explains why rivers can carve valleys over time.
What is water carries sediment and erodes rock?
This is the feature that forms at a divergent boundary between two oceanic plates.
This is Earth’s internal heat energy that drives plate motion.
What is Radioactive decay in the core?
This process continually recycles Earth’s crustal material
What is the movement of tectonic plates?
This is what it means when scientists say Earth’s processes occur at different “temporal scales”.
What is they occur at different lengths of time?
What is an EXTERNAL force that drives the rock cycle?
What is the water cycle?