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Plate Tectonics
Vocabulary
Heat Transfer
Erosion
Volcanoes
100
when rocks are pushed together by compression and one rock goes up while the other goes fown
What is a reverse fault?
100
The natural process by which atmospheric and environmental agents disintegrate and decompose cells
What does the word weathering mean?
100
Conduction is the transfer of energy as heat through material
What is conduction?
100
When waster sips through cracks in rocks and freezes and expands breaking to bits
What is Ice wedging?
100
Magma or mafic
What is lava called when it freezes?
200
The core is made of iron
What is the core made of
200
A natural resource is a resource that is natually made or is natrual
What is a natural resource?
200
The movement of matter due to differences in density or when cool air goes down and warm air goes up
What is Convection?
200
The boundary between land a body of water
What is shoreline?
200
When 2 tectonic plates crash in to each other and magma is going up
What cause volcanoes to form?
300
A break of rock along which 1 block slides retaliative to another
What is a fault?
300
Crude oil is petroleum that has not been manufactured to make other products such as gasoline plastic and so on
What is crud oil?
300
Thermal expansion is an increase in volume from an increase of temperature
What is thermal expansion
300
Chemical, and mechanical weathering
What are the 2 types of weathering?
300
A vent or fissue in earth surface through magma and gases expel
What does the term volcano mean?
400
San Andreas
What is the largest fault?
400
Fossil fuels are the dead remains of ancient organism that are burned up and used as fuel
What are fossil fuels
400
The grinding and wearing away of a rock surfaces through the mechanical action or sand particles
What is abrasion?
400
A plate made of dense lithosphere moves beneath another plate
What are convergent boundaries?
500
The central part of the earth below the mantle?
What is the core?
500
A specific location where earthquakes happened
What is a epi center
500
Heat flow
What is another term for heat transfer
500
The rapid mass movement of rock and soil down a slope
What is a rock fall?
500
Ring of fire in the pacific ocean
Where are most volcanoes located?