Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
Name two things that can cause weathering and erosion.
What is ice, snow, water, wind, rain, river, waves, etc?
The thinnest layer of the earth
What is the crust?
Marie Tharp used this to discover the mid ocean ridge.
What are sonar waves?
This is a mound or hill of sand formed by wind.
What is a sand dune?
This boundary type is when two plates are sliding past each other.
What is transform?
The breaking down of rocks through wind, rain and Ice
What is weathering?
The thickest layer of the earth
What is the mantle?
Hawaii and Yellowstone aren't on plate boundaries, instead they are called.
What are hot spots?
Waves continuously cutting away at the land will create a distinct, flat face. We call this a
What is a cliff?
This boundary type is when two plates collide, forming a mountain.
What is convergent?
When earth is moved by wind, water, or gravity.
What is erosion?
The hottest layer of the earth
What is the inner core?
The reason volcanoes and earthquakes are in similar spots.
What are plate boundaries (where the crust is weak & moving)?
Name a landform that can only be formed by tectonic plate movements.
What is a mountain?
What is a rift?
When two plates separate, creating a rift if they are continental, a ridge if they are in the ocean.
What is divergent?
This is why the bottom of the ocean is sandy.
What is deposition?
This layer is all liquid and creates our magnetic field.
What is the outer core?
Alfred Wagner based his theory of continental drift on his observations of these 3 things.
What are fossils, rocks, and the continents looking like puzzle pieces?
As a river cuts through the land and creates a deep trench. We call this a...
What is a canyon?
If an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate, the oceanic plate _________________.
What is subduction? Or What is sinks under the continental?
A large pile of snow and ice that creates a U-shaped valley in a mountain is called a....
What is a glacier?
This is where the tectonic plates are.
What is between the mantle and crust?
Henry Hess came up with this theory based on three pieces of evidence: The age of rocks around the mid ocean ridge, the mirrored magnetic stripes, and the igneous underwater mountain range.
This forms from different layers of lava cooling, creating a dome, cone, or shield.
What is a volcano?
What is oceanic-oceanic convergent?