Inside Earth
This layer of the Earth is made of solid iron.
What is the inner core?
This is the name of the supercontinent named in the continental drift theory.
What is Pangaea?
This motion occurs when one tectonic plate sticks to another and releases in a sudden motion.
What is stick-slip motion?
This is a solid material made of one or elements that has a crystaline structure.
What is a mineral?
This is the process of breaking down rock and minerals through the sun's energy, wind, running water, ice, chemical reaction, and animal activity.
This is the layer of the mantle that tectonic plates float upon.
What is the asthenosphere?
After Wegner's initial idea of continental drift was denied by scientists, this process led the way to understanding plate tectonics.
What is seafloor spreading?
These are the three types of tectonic waves and their movement
What are p-waves which move forward and backward, s- waves that move back and forth, and surface waves, which only occur on the surface of the Earth.
This kind of rock is formed through changes in heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
These are the two kinds of weathering and how they work.
What are Mechanical weathering which is the breaking apart of rocks by chipping off pieces and chemical weathering which removes rock through chemical reaction.
Through this process mantle rises from the Earth's core and falls when it cools at the Lithosphere.
What is convection?
This is an area in oceanic crust where new crust is created.
What is a divergent boundary?
Or a mid ocean ridge
This kind of volcano is not currently erupting but has the potential to in the future.
What is a dormant volcano?
This kind of rock is made of eroded material that is compacted and cemented material.
What is sedimentary rock?
This process removes sediment by wind, water, ice, or gravity.
What is erosion?
This measurement has been found to contribute to how the Earth's plates move as well as convection.
This is a place where two tectonic plates come together.
What is a convergent boundary?
This is the material that exits the volcano.
What is lava?
Igneous rock can be formed in what two categories.
What is extrusive rock and intrusive rock?
This is the process of sediments being dropped according to their size.
What is deposition?
These are the two types of tectonic plates and what differentiates them.
What are oceanic plate which is thin and more dense and made of basalt, and continental plate which is thick and less dense and contains adenisite and granite.
This occurs when one tectonic plate goes beneath another.
What is subduction?
This type of volcano is low and flat.
What is a shield volcano?
How one kind of rock become another.
What is by undergoing the rock cycle?
Or
Students recite the rock cycle.
These form when water flows at different speeds in different parts of a river.
What is a meander?