Vocabulary
What is the term for when one thing causes another?
Causation
What are the two types of crust that make up Earth's surface?
Oceanic and Continental
What process mostly created the Grand Canyon?
Erosion
What is the term for the breaking down of rock?
Weathering
What does Pangaea mean?
"All Earth"
What is the term for when two things appear at the same time, but do not cause each other?
Correlation
What is the term for when one tectonic plate moves underneath another one?
Subduction
When a plant root grows up and through a rock, resulting it in fragmenting, what process is this?
Weathering
What is the term for a violent shaking of Earth causes by tectonic plates interacting?
What is the method of heat transfer that is through the movement of fluids?
What is the term for solid rock found everywhere on the Earth, often under sediments?
Bedrock
What type of rock mostly makes up oceanic crust?
Basalt
What does igneous rock melt into?
Magma
What is the term for the moving of pieces of rock?
Erosion
What city in California did we analyze pictures and videos from?
Ridgecrest
What is the term for the gradual shape change of rock?
Creep
What type of crust is mostly made of granite?
Continental
Sediments creating a delta at the end of a river is an example of what process?
Deposition
What is the term for the setting down of pieces of rock?
Deposition
What percent of active volcanoes are located in the Ring of Fire?
75%
What is the term for a crack or fracture in bedrock resulting from earthquakes?
Fault lines
What is the term for the building of mountains?
Orogeny
What two things cause a rock to creep?
Heat and pressure
What landform, created by tectonic plate interactions, can create island arcs?
Volcano
What is the term for the rocky crust of Earth and the upper mantle?
Lithosphere