The three major characterisitics that geologists use to identify igneous rocks.
What is Origin, Texture, and Mineral.
200
Hawaii
What is a Hot Spot in the Pacific Plate.
200
Two plates slide past each other.
What is Transform Boundary.
200
Wegener's evidence for Continental Drift
How did Wegner use Landforms, Fossils and Climate.
200
Aretes and Cirques
What landforms are created by glaciers.
300
Clastic, Organic and Chemical.
What are the three types of Sedimentary Rocks
300
A belt of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean?
What is the Ring of Fire.
300
Where two plates move apart from each other.
What is Divergent Plate Boundary.
300
At the mid-ocean ridge, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts. The molten material rises then spreads out, pushing older rock to both sides of the ridge.
What is Sea-Floor Spreading.
300
Plate movement and Volcanoes.
What causes Earthquakes?
400
The arrangment of the grains that make up the rock.
What characteristics are used to classify metamorohic rocks.
400
Where most volcanoes occur on Earth's surface.
What is Diverging Plate Boundaries,Converging Plate Boudnaries and at Hot Spots.
400
When two plates come together, or converge.
What is a Convergent Plate Boundary.
400
Farthest from the Mid-Ocean Ridge.
Where are the oldest rocks on the ocean floor located?
400
Earth's interior, the rock and minerals, and the processes that shaped Earth's surface.
What is the Geosphere.
500
A series of processes on Earth's surface and inside the planet that slowly change rock from one kind to another.
What is the ROCK CYCLE!!!
500
basalt
What is the rock that is expelled during a volcanic eruption.
500
When two continental plates come together.
What is Mountain Building.
500
A deep valley on land that is created by a Divergent Plate Boudnary.
What is a Rift Valley.
500
Moraines, kettle lakes, prairie pothole, drumlims and glacial lake.