Tectonic Plates
Earth's Layers
Rock Cycle
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Vocabulary
100
An area where two tectonic plates meet
What is a boundary?
100
This is the flowing layer which allows the Earth's plates to move
What is the Asthenosphere?
100
The processes that can turn any rock type into sediments
What are weathering and erosion?
100
This image represents a ______________ boundary
What is a transform boundary
100
This is the name of the proposed "supercontinent" where all the Earth's continents were once joined together
What is Pangea?
200
This type of plate boundary involves two plates moving apart from one another
What is a divergent boundary
200
This is the rigid upper layer of the Earth which includes the Earth's crust and upper most mantle
What is the Lithosphere?
200
The processes that turns sediments in to sedimentary rocks
What are compaction and cementation?
200
A ________ boundary can result in the creation of this landform
What is convergent boundary?
200
The term for molten rock found below the Earth's surface
What is magma?
300
This is the name of the fault found in California where several major earthquakes have occurred
What is the San Andreas Fault?
300
This is the two types of crust found on Earth
What are Continental and Oceanic?
300
The processes that can turn sedimentary rock in to metamorphic rock
What are heat and pressure?
300
The name of the plate that is blacked out
What is the African Plate?
300
The study of rocks, their history and the processes that form and change them
What is geology?
400
These two features form in the ocean when one oceanic plate is forced below another oceanic plate
What are trenches and volcanic islands?
400
The inner core is made of a solid ball of mostly what elements?
What are Nickel and Iron
400
Igneous rocks are categorized as ____________ or _________________, depending on where the molten rock cooled
What are extrusive and intrusive?
400
The name of this common intrusive igneous rock
What is Granite?
400
This is the term for one plate being forced underneath another plate
What is subduction?
500
The location where sea floor spreading takes place
What is a mid ocean ridge?
500
List the order of the layers from the inside of the Earth to the surface of the Earth. You should have 5 layers
What is inner core, outer core, mantle, asthenosphere and lithosphere?
500
This type of rock is where fossils can be found
What is sedimentary rock?
500
The name of the plate that is blacked out
What is the Pacific Plate?
500
The scientist's name who first proposed the theory of plate tectonics
Who is Alfred Wegner?