Boundaries
Transform
As seafloor spreading occurs, the Earth gets (Smaller, Bigger, Stays the Same Size)
Stays the Same Size
Newer rocks are are found at what layer?
Top layer
Type of rock made from heat
Igneous
Slow
The boundary type where mountains are made
Convergent
Newer crust is located where (closer or farther)
Closer
The farther you go down, the more likely you are to find what?
Fossils
Type of rock made from pressure
Sedimentary
Timescale of a landslide
Fast
The boundary type where plates move away from eachother
Divergent
More dense (Heavier)
If two places have similar rock strata, we can assumed they were once what?
Touching (Pangea)
Type of rock made from heat and pressure
Metamorphic
Weathering/Erosion
The name of the theory for plates moving
Plate Tectonics
The process of seafloor plates going below continental plates is called what?
Subduction
Weathering does what
Breaks down rock into sediment
Who discovered plate techtonics?
Wegener
If fossils are found on two continents, we can guess that those continents used to what
Touch (Pangea)
When the crust subducts, it is what?
Recycled
What does erosion do
Washes away the sediment from weathering
Calderas are having lower or higher age?
Lower