Plate Interaction
The name of Earth's super continent
What is Pangea
Three types of rocks
What is metamorphic, igneous, sedimentary
What mountain is in the Himalayas
What is Mount Everest
What does magnitude mean in regards to earthquakes?
What is how big the earthquake is
What continents were once touching
What is Africa and South America, Africa and Australia, Europe and North American, Antarctica and Australia, Africa and Asia.
Plate interaction at the Mid Atlantic Ridge
What is divergent plate
Easiest type of rock to erode
What is sedimentary rock
Plate interaction that causes mountains to grow
Where are earthquakes typically found?
What is along plate boundaries
Wind and rain causes this
What is erosion
What is magma
The hardest type of rock to erode
What is metamorphic rock
why would marine fossils be on top of a mountain
What is plates colliding.
Region of the world where many volcanoes are found
What is the ring of fire
What pulls the oceanic plate down at a subduction zone?
What is convection currents
Result of an oceanic and continental plate colliding
What is a subduction zone
The layer of Earth where rocks melt under intense pressure and high temperatures.
What is the mantle
What is Andes Mountains and Southern Alps (Mt. Cook)
The production of volcanoes
What is Lava
What are seven pieces of evidence that supports Pangea?
What is fossils, glaciers, rocks and minerals, rock formations, coral reefs, mountain ranges, puzzle pieces
The action to create new oceanic plates
seafloor spreading
Two variables that are applied to rocks as you go deeper into the earth
What is pressure and heat
Erosion rates that are higher than uplift rates results in what?
What is land decreasing in elevation
What type of plate is needed for volcanoes
what is oceanic plates
how much a land is pushed up overtime
What is uplift