Rock Cycle
Rocks formed from the eventual cooling of magma.
What are igneous rocks?
Along the center of North America, this landform was developed through the erosion of mountains, inland seas, and glacial retreats.
Rocky Mountains.
What is western North America?
1980 Washington State
What is a volcano?
Creates mountain ranges.
What is a Continental – Continental Convergent Boundary?
Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs.
The name of the ancient lake that used to cover much of Manitoba.
What is Lake Agassiz?
The Hot Spot in the middle of the Pacific Plate.
What is Hawaii?
2010 Chile
What is an earthquake?
The more dense plate subducts.
What is a Continental – Oceanic Convergent Boundary?
Rocks that have had their minerals transformed into new minerals.
A large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks that forms the ancient geologic core of the North American continent.
Himalayan Mountains
Where is Northern India?
What is bordering India, Nepal, China and Bhutan?
79, modern day Naples Italy
What is a volcano?
Many continental volcanoes formed as a consequence of this boundary.
What is a Continental – Oceanic Convergent Boundary?
Limestone is this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
Vancouver, Seattle, and and Sacramento are all part of this range.
What is the Pacific Range?
Above ground demonstration of the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
What is Iceland?
2010 Haiti
This boundary is responsible for Marianas trench, the deepest place on earth.
What is a Oceanic – Oceanic Convergent Boundary?
Granite is this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
The high lands east of Manitoba, the source of much of our sediments.
What are the Appalachian Highlands?
Andes Mountains.
What is South America?
2004 Thailand
What is a Tsunami?
The Andes Mountains are a result of the Continental – Oceanic Convergent Boundary between the South American plate and this plate.
What is the Nazca Plate?