Plate Boundaries
The type of boundary where two plates are moving apart.
What is divergent?
The type of rock created by sediments being cemented and compacted together.
What is sedimentary rock?
The break down of rocks.
What is weathering?
The molten rock that spews out of volcanos.
What is lava?
The outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
The type of plate boundary where two plates move past each other.
What is transform?
The type of rock that is created through the cooling of molten rock.
What is igneous rock?
The movement of sediment due to forces like wind and water.
The location that earthquakes occur.
What are plate boundaries?
The state of matter (solid liquid gas) of the inner core?
What is solid?
The reason tectonic plates are moving.
The type of rock that is created from other rocks due to heat and pressure?
What are metamorphic rocks?
A type of weathering that breaks down rocks at the molecular level.
What is chemical weathering?
The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus.
What is an epicenter?
The ability of soil to produce plant life.
What is soil fertility?
This type of plate boundary creates thrust faults, folded rocks, powerful earthquakes, and high continental mountain ranges.
What is continental-continental convergent?
A type of sedimentary rock that is used for energy and was created because of the burial of swamps.
What is coal?
The type of weathering that breaks down rocks into sediments.
What is mechanical weathering?
The gas released by volcanism that causes the cooling of Earth's atmopshere?
What is sulfur dioxide?
The reason Earth's core produces heat.
The region where an oceanic plate sinks down into the asthenosphere at a convergent boundary creating volcanic arcs.
What is subduction zone?
The type of rock that causes the creation cave systems and sinkholes due to water and carbon dioxide dissolving it?
What is limestone?
This part of the biosphere helps hold soil in place to prevent erosion.
The term for using three points of data to find an earthquake's epicenter.
What is triangulate?
The type of rock that makes up oceanic crust.