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Weathering and Erosion
Rock Cycle
plates of the world
tectonic plates and sea floor.
earthquakes and volcanoes
100
What type of weathering occurs when chemicals change rocks?
What is chemical weathering.
100
What is the cycle that all rocks go through called?
What is the Rock Cycle
100
The plate that we live on is called...
What is Juan de Fuca plate.
100
what is the middle part of the plate called where lava rises to the surface?
What is rift.
100
what causes earthquakes?
What is shifting tectonic plates.
200
When acids effect rocks, what type of weathering is it?
What is chemical weathering?
200
What changes sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock?
What is Heat and pressure.
200
The plate that covers all of Europe is called...
What is Eurasian plate.
200
when tectonic plates shift, what do they cause?
What is earthquakes.
200
what is molten rock called when its inside the volcano?
What is magma.
300
What type of weathering is it when rocks are broken apart by physical process.
What is mechanical weathering.
300
What step changes magma into Igneous Rock?
What is Cooling and crystallizing.
300
what is the boundary called when two plates slide past each other?
What is a Transforming boundary.
300
a shaloow underwater ledge is called?
What is an underwater shelf.
300
what is magma called once it errupts from the volcano?
What is lava.
400
When rocks are effected by a matter what is this called?
What is weathering.
400
What steps change Igneous Rock into Sedimentary rock?
What is Weathering and Erosion, sediments and compaction and cementation.
400
what is the name of the two boundarys, one of them pushes plates away from each other, and the other forces plates towards each other.
What is converging boundary and divergent boundary.
400
long maountain ranges in the sea floor are called?
What is ocean ridges.
400
what is the instrument used to measure earthqaukes called?
What is a seismograph.
500
What is it called when expanding ice breaks apart rocks?
What is mechanical weathering.
500
What happens after heat and pressure are applied to igneous rock?
What is changing into metamorphic rock
500
What is the boundary between the pacific plate and the philippine plate?
What is a converging boundary
500
what is the large flat area in the sea floor called?
What is the abyssal plain.
500
what is the scale that measures earthquakes called?
What is the richtor scale?