Grammar
A person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
The process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
A rock that is made of sediments that have been compacted and cemented together.
What is a sedimentary rock?
Mountains formed when rocks are pushed up into huge folds by moving tectonic plates.
What are fold mountains?
A theory that Earth's crust and the solid top part of the mantle are broken up into sections that fit together but move against each other.
What are plate tectonics?
A word that describes a verb
What is an adverb?
A crack in the Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
A rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies.
What is an igneous rock?
Mountains formed when gigantic blocks of rock move up and down along faults.
What are fault-block mountains?
The process in which a heavier oceanic plate slides under a lighter continental plate.
What is subduction?
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
To closely pack or press together.
What is compact?
A rock that forms when minerals in other types of rocks are changed due to extreme heat and pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
Mountains generally formed when magma pushes upward into Earth's crust from the mantle and cools causing the crust to bulge.
What are dome mountains?
A boundary in which tectonic plates move apart from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
lists, dates, city and state, short pause
What are places a comma is used?
Able to last a long time in good condition.
What is durable?
A dark rock or natural glass formed from lava that cooled very quickly.
What is obsidian?
The name of the fold mountains located in Peru.
What are the Andes Mountains?
A boundary in which tectonic plates collide with each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
Symbols used to show that someone is speaking or when copying a phrase directly from someone else's writing
What are quotation marks?
A gigantic wave of seawater caused by an earthquake in oceanic crust.
What is a tsunami?
A sedimentary rock often packed with fossilized skeletons and shells of tiny ocean creatures that is commonly used for building.
What is limestone?
The name of the fault-block mountains located in Germany.
What are the Harz Mountains?
A boundary in which tectonic plates slide sideways past each other.
What is a transform boundary?