Rocks ROCK!
The process of how rocks change through weathering, erosion, and the deposition of sediments.
What is the rock cycle?
This hot, molten rock erupts from volcanoes and flows down their sides.
This is the outermost layer of the Earth, where we live.
What is the crust?
When two continental plates collide, they form these massive landforms.
What are mountains?
This large wave is caused by undersea earthquakes.
What is a tsunami?
This is the type of rock formed from particles like sand, shells, and pebbles compacted over time
What is sedimentary rock?
This type of rock is formed from cooling lava
What is igneous rock?
What is 4?
This large mountain range formed from the collision of the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
What are the Himalayas?
This device measures the intensity of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
Metamorphic rocks need these two things to form.
What is heat and pressure?
The Ring of Fire, a major area for volcanoes and earthquakes, surrounds this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This is the thick, semi-liquid layer below Earth's crust where magma forms.
Mantle
This US state has the most plate boundaries.
What is California?
The area on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
This sedimentary rock is composed of compacted plant material and is often used as a fuel source.
What is coal?
This term describes a volcano that hasn’t erupted for a long time but is expected to again.
What is a dormant volcano?
What is the Earth's outer core made of? HINT: what state of matter would you find the substance?
What is liquid rock
This supercontinent, which existed around 335 million years ago, included almost all of Earth's landmasses.
What is Pangaea?
The scale most commonly used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.
What is the Richter scale?
This type of rock forms from volcanic activity and can have a glassy texture due to rapid cooling of lava.
What is obsidian?
This volcano in Washington state erupted in 1980, one of the most well-documented eruptions in U.S. history.
What is Mount St. Helens?
The crust and the uppermost mantle together form this rigid outer layer of Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
When an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, this process causes the oceanic plate to sink under the continental plate.
What is subduction?
In what major Canadian city are you most likely to experience an earthquake?
What is Vancouver?