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Rock cycle
WEDS
Continental Drift
Plate Tectonics
Conservation
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True or False: Materials in the Rock Cycle can only ever follow one path.

False

100
Abrasion, ice wedging, and plant growth are all examples of...

Mechanical (physical) weathering

100

This place would have similar rocks to South America

Africa

100

The three types of plate boundaries.

Convergent, Divergent, Transform

100

To save or protect resources.

Conserve

200
The 2 processes where the weight of deposited sediments creates pressure, squeezing the sediments on bottom until they stick together.

Compaction and Cementation

200

What are the 5 agents of erosion?

Water, Wind, Waves, Gravity, Glaciers

200
It's theorized that millions of years ago all of the continents were once combined together as this supercontinent.

Pangea

200

When two plates pass by each other, creating a fault line and earthquakes.

Transform boundary

200

The 3 R's of conservation.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

300

This type of igneous rock is described as "coarse-grained"

Intrusive Igneous Rock

300

Soil is primarily composed of these 4 main ingredients.

Weathered rocks/minerals, organic material, air, and water.
300

German scientist who created the theory of Continental Drift

Alfred Wegner

300

Lithospheric plates float on this layer of the mantle.

Asthenosphere

300

What resource is primarily used in the world to produce energy?

Fossil Fuels: Coal, Oil, Natural Gas

400

Metamorphic rocks that form with bands of alternating dark-light colors.

Foliated

400

The deposition of sediments in a fan-shape where a river flows into the sea/ocean.

River Delta
400

What new theory explains how the continents move?

Plate Tectonics

400

When two ocean plates diverge, they create this feature.

Mid-Ocean Ridge.

400

The natural phenomenon in which heat is trapped by certain gases in our atmosphere, keeping our planet warm. Overuse of fossil fuels is causing it to increase unnaturally increase global temperatures.

The Greenhouse Effect

500

What processes create each of the 3 types of rocks?

sedimentary - Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, Compaction, Cementation

metamorphic - extreme heat & pressure

igneous - melting & cooling

500

Name the layers of soil and their horizon letters in order from top to bottom.

O - Organic Layer (Humus), A - Topsoil, B - Subsoil, C - Parent Material, R - Bedrock

500

Three pieces of evidence of continental drift

continents fit together, similar animal remains, similar rocks

500

Plate boundary that forms trenches and volcanoes

convergent (subduction)

500

What consequence can we expect on shorelines if sea levels increase due to global climate change?

Increased wave erosion. (Will also accept flooding)