Rock Cycle
This type of rock is formed by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
This is the name of the tectonic plate that you live on.
What is the North American Plate?
This type of plate boundary occurs when 2 plates move towards one another.
What is convergent?
The feature where a volcano erupts.
What is a vent?
This is the area underground where the earthquake begins.
What is the focus?
This type of rock is formed by compaction and cementation?
What is sedimentary rock?
This person is responsible for the theory of continental drift.
Alfred Wegner
This type of plate boundary is caused by the dividing of continental or oceanic crust
What is divergent?
This is what magma is called when it is spread across the surface.
What is lava?
This is the type of body wave that travels the fastest and will reach the epicenter first.
What are p-waves?
This is an igneous formed beneath the surface.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
This is the number of major plates on Earth
What is 7?
This is type of boundary where volcanic islands and trenches form. (Include the crust and boundary)
What is an oceanic/oceanic convergent plate boundary?
This is the USA's island chain made entirely from volcanoes.
What is Hawaii?
This type of body wave has a side to side type of movement.
What are S-waves?
Glassy igneous rock would be formed if lava was cooled at this speed?
What is very fast?
The hypothesis that describes a supercontinent, named pangaea, that was split apart into the continents we know today.
What is continental drift?
Transform plate boundaries undergo a side by side grinding that will lead to what type of hazard?
What are earthquakes?
Places where hot magma rises without plate interaction.
What are hot spots?
These are the waves that occur only at the surface and cause the most damage during an earthquake?
What are surface waves?
Wind, water, glaciers, and gravity are all considered this type of weathering.
What is mechanical weathering?
This is the motion of asthenosphere that leads to formation of new lithosphere.
What is convection?
Large mountains chains, like those of the Andes, are created from what type of convergent plate boundary? (What type of crust is involved)
What is continental/continental?
This is one of the reasons that pyroclastics (fire rocks) are so dangerous.
What are: blocks sunlight, unable to see, sharp glass-like shards, unable to breath, extremely hot.
This is how many seismic stations are needed to accurately represent the epicenter of an Earthquake
What is 3?