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PLATE TECTONICS
WEATHERING
EROSION
Layers of the Earth
MISCELLANEOUS
100

The names of the four layers of the earth.

What is inner core, outer core, mantle and crust

100
The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Loosens and transports sediment by gravity, wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
100

Which layer is the thinnest?

What is the Crust?

100
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart.
What is pangaea?
200
Causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents
200

The movement of sediment from one location to another.

What is Erosion?

200
Creates sand dunes and rock arches.
What is wind erosion?
200

What are the 4 main layers of the Earth?  

What are the Crust, mantle, inner and outer core?

200

This can occur at Transform plate boundaries, sliding past each other to release stress.

What is an earthquake?

300

The Himalayan Mountains (Mt Everest) were formed by which type of boundary?

What is convergent.

300
Type of weathering caused by living things
What is biological weathering?
300
Creates landforms such as valleys, canyons, caverns or floodplains.
What is water erosion?
300

What are the 2 layers of the Earth that are solid?

What is the Inner core and the Crust?

300

What is Ms. Kraft's Favorite type of rock?.

What is Igneous Rock (Granite)?

400
This is created when a oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
What is a subduction zone.
400

The Grand Canyon formed by what form of weathering/erosion?

What is Physical Weathering from water (Colorado River)?

400
A curve or bend in a stream bed.
What is a meander?
400

What happens to the temperature and density of the material in the convection current after it rises?

Does the temperature decrease and the density increase?

400
River erosion can move all sizes of ______________.
What is sediment?
500

Mid-Atlantic Ridge was formed this way.

What is a divergent boundary?

500

How did Yosemite Valley form?

What are Glaciers carving out the granite over time?

500

Triangle-shaped area at the mouth of a river and where deposition occurs.

What is a delta?

500

What are the names of the upper portion of the Mantle and the lower part of the Crust.

What is the Asthenosphere and the Lithosphere?

500

What are the 2 types of crust?

What is oceanic and continental