Time to Rock!
The oldest layer can be found ________ the younger layers
What is below?
A natural disaster that is caused by the movement of tectonic plates.
What is an earthquake?
The cycle that deals with the changing of forms for physical rocks.
What is the rock cycle?
The Earth sphere that deals with all things rock.
What is the Geosphere?
The Earth sphere that deals with all things in the air.
What is the Atmosphere?
The Law of Superposition states that rock layers form in this alignment.
What is horizontal?
A natural disaster that is caused by circulating air currents.
What is a tornado?
The cycle that deals with the movement of water in all of it forms.
What is the water cycle?
The plate boundary where the plates pull apart, and is responsible for seafloor spreading.
What is a divergent boundary?
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
A fossil is found on two separate layers on two separate continents. Said fossil is considered an index fossil. Thus both layers are considered to be of the same _________________.
What is a time period?
When rising air currents build up over the ocean, and can cause large amounts of damage.
What is a hurricane?
The step of the water cycle that water returns to the surface in a variety of forms.
What is precipitation?
The type of fault that the San Andreas fault is.
What is a strike-slip fault?
The layer of the atmosphere where we consider space to start.
What is the exosphere?
The type of dating that uses radioactive isotopes to calculate the exact age.
What is absolute dating?
A Natural disaster that happens when magma builds up below the surface and rushes out of the ground.
What is a volcano?
The rock type that is formed from heat and pressure changing it.
What is metamorphic rock?
The type of stress associated with a transform boundary.
What is shear stress?
The weather phenomena that happens in the Pacific Ocean that affects the US.
What is El Nino and La Nina?
A type of change in rock layers that results from a tectonic boundary.
What is folding?
The name of the volcano in Washington State that erupted in 1980.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
The driving force of the rock cycle.
What is the movement of Earth's mantle?
The man who came up with the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wagner?
The weather phenomenon that happens in the Sonoran Desert that is considered an oversized dust storm.
What is a Haboob?