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Mixed Bag
100

What is the material formed from rocks broken down by weathering?

Sediment

100
To come together is what type of boundary?
What is convergent?
100
To move apart is what kind of boundary?
What is divergent?
100

When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________

What is sedimentary rocks.

100

What can be found in sedimentary rocks that scientists can study to learn about the past?

Fossils

200

This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.

lava

200

The two types of plates are...

What is oceanic and Continental?

200
The Himalayas were formed by...
What is two Continental plates converging?
200

Name the processes that turn Igneous Rock into sediment

weathering and erosion

200

What is the difference between a divergent, a convergent, and a transform boundary?

A divergent boundary pulls apart

A convergent boundary pushes together 

A transform boundary slides past each other

300

Minerals can act like _________, holding the rock together

cement / glue

300
Three possible plate boundaries are ...
What is convergent, divergent and transform?
300
Hess's theory of sea-floor spreading says that new ocean crust is formed at the....
What is mid-ocean ridge?
300

When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________

What is sediments?

300

What is the circulation of fluids caused by differences in density and thermal energy

Convection

400

When magma does this it forms granite with large crystals

cools slowly

400
Plate boundaries that slide past each other are called...
What is transform boundaries?
400
Ocean crust sinks....
What is because it is denser?
400

_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.

Heat and pressure

400

What are four things that will move rock and sediments

Gravity, wind, water, and glaciers

500

Basalt is an igneous rock that makes up this part of Earth's surface

ocean crust

500
When one plate slides under another plate this is called...
What is subduction?
500

Volcanoes are formed most commonly formed when.

What is an oceanic plate subducts a continental plate?

500

When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________

magma

500

What is the difference between physical and chemical weathering?

Physical weathering causes rocks to break down but a new type of rock is not made

Chemical weathering breaks down rocks and creates a new type of rock