Vocabulary
No Boundaries
The Earth's Layers
Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rock
The Rock Cycle
100
The supercontinent that exsisted about 225 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
100
This boundary makes earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?
100
The Lithosphere is above this layer.
What is the asthenosphere?
100
TRUE / FALSE
All minerals have the same melting point.
What is false?
100
Sedimentary rocks become this, when they melt.
What is magma?
200
A small, steep volcano that forms from pyroclastic material.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
200
This boundary forms mountains.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
TRUE / FALSE
The inner core is liquid.
What is false?
200
Magma that crystallizes is this rock.
What is igneous rock?
200
When sediments are compacted they become this.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
The process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.
What is deposition?
300
This plate has the most volcanic activity.
What is the North American plate?
300
The outer core is made of.
What is liquid nickel and iron?
300
During this, an organism can be replaced by minerals and turned into rock.
What is lithification?
300
Magma is defined as.
What is liquid rock?
400
The point above an earthquakes focus.
What is the epicenter?
400
Plates only move a few this every year.
What is centimeters?
400
The outer crust is brittle or plastic.
What is brittle?
400
The primary feature of sedimentary rock is this.
What is bedding?
400
When sediment is carried somewhere else.
What is erosion?
500
A deep valley where 2 plates move apart.
What is Rift Valley?
500
These plates move away from each other.
What is divergent boundaries?
500
The rigid layer that makes up the crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
500
This occurs when rocks come in contact with molten rock.
What is contact metamorphism?
500
The act that fills the open spaces with various minerals
What is cementation?