Rocks
Fossils/Continental Drift
Plate Tectonics
Layers of the Earth
Erosion/Deposition/Weathering
100

What rock is formed by compacting & cementing of sediments?

Sedimentary

100

What was the super continent named?

Pangea

100

The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

Convergent

100

What is the thinnest layer?

Crust

100

Deposition, Erosion, or Weathering?

A flash flood washes away the side of a river bank

Erosion

200

What rock is formed by the cooling & solidification of lava/magma? 

Igneous 

200

Who proposed the continental drift theory?

Alfred Wegener

200

What type of event occurs at a transform boundary?

Earthquake

200

What is the only liquid layer?

Outer Core

200

Deposition, Erosion, or Weathering?

Waves wash sand onto land until a beach is formed

Deposition

300

What rock is formed by heat and pressure?

Metamorphic

300

The fact that similar fossils are found on both sides of the ocean is evidence of:

Continental Drift

300

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

move apart, divide, pull apart

300

Put the Earth layers in order from coolest to hottest:

Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core

300

Deposition, Erosion, Weathering?

 A rock breaking apart by cracking or by acid rain are examples of

Weathering

400

When a metamorphic rock is melted, what is formed?

Magma

400

According to the law of superposition, the oldest fossils are found...

Near the bottom of the rock layers

400

What are the two types of crust and what are they made of?

Continental (Granite) and Oceanic (Basalt)

400

We can make inferences about the interior of Earth by analyzing:

the behavior of seismic waves

400

What kind of river has slower-moving water: straight or curvy?

Curvy

500

What is the difference between extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks?

Extrusive- outside the Earth's surface, Volcano

Intrusive- inside the Earth's surface, Ocean Floor

500

If a scientist found a fish fossil in the desert, what can they infer?

That water covered the area long ago

500

What two features are formed at a Convergent Subduction boundary?

Ocean Trench and Volcanoes

500

In which Earth layer are most convection currents that cause seafloor spreading thought to be located??

Asthenosphere

500

Why are rocks smoother near water?

Because they have been eroded or weathered