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PLATE TECTONICS
WEATHERING
EROSION
VOLCANOES
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
Molten (melted) rock inside a volcano.
What is magma?
100
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart.
What is pangaea?
200
Causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents
200
___________ and ___________ are common forms of chemical weathering.
What are acid rain and oxidation?
200
Creates sand dunes and rock arches.
What is wind erosion?
200
Most volcanoes form at these plate boundaries.
What are convergent boundaries?
200
This can occur at any plate boundary to release stress.
What is an earthquake?
300
The Appalachian and Himalayan Mountains 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
Tiny pieces of glass made from solidified lava.
What is ash?
300
Beaches change shape and size because of ___________.
What is wave erosion?
400
This is created when a oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
What is a subduction zone.
400
The grinding and scraping by wind, water or human activity.
What is abrasion?
400
A curve or bend in a stream bed.
What is a meander?
400
A circular bowl shaped hole at the top of some volcanoes.
What is a crater?
400
River erosion can move all sizes of ______________.
What is sediment?
500
This type of plate boundary is causing the Atlantic Ocean to grow.
What is a divergent boundary?
500
Plants, algae, lichens, fungi, and bacteria can dissolve rocks for nutrients.
What is chemical biological weathering?
500
Triangle-shaped area at the mouth of a river and where deposition occurs.
What is a delta?
500
A large underground pool of liquid rock beneath the surface of the Earth.
What is a magma chamber?
500
The material that is produced by explosive volcanoes.
What is pyroclastic material