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?
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?
The period of 100 years.
What is a century?
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?
The process in which a heavier oceanic plate slides under a lighter continental plate.
What is subduction?
A word meaning completely destroyed.
What is devastated?
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?
A boundary in which tectonic plates move apart from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
The root word meaning "to break."
What is rupt?
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?
A boundary in which tectonic plates collide with each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
A type of writing where you talk about similarities and differences between two things.
What is compare & contrast?
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?
A boundary in which tectonic plates slide sideways past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
A tool used to measure earthquake magnitude.
What is a seismograph?