Vocabulary
The thinnest layer of the Earth
What is The Crust?
A plate that collides.
What is Convergent boundary.
Volcanoes and Earthquakes are usually located in relation to these
What is Plate boundary
The Himalayan Mountains are the result of a (blank) boundary
What is Convergent
Definition of Rock Cycle
What is The rock cycle is a series of processes that occur on Earth's crust and mantle that slowly change rocks from one kind to another.
The definition of plate tectonics?
What is Is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of the plates making up the Earths lithosphere.
A plate that divides
What is Divergent boundary.
Name four of the major plates
What is any of the following North American plate, South American plate, Eurasian Plate, Indoaustralia plate, African plate, Antarctica plate
Factors that affect the rock cycle
What is melting, weathering, erosion, deposition, heat, and pressure.
Movement in magma between hot and cool movement
What is convection
A plate that results in faults and slides.
What is Transform boundary.
The mechanism (that causes) the plates to move
What is convection cycles in the mantle
Example that illustrates the rock cycle
What is (Possible response): Granite is changed to sandstone after being exposed to extreme heat and pressure?
The sphere that contains the magma
What is Asthenosphere
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes occur) and collision (where mountains usually form)
Nonexample of the rock cycle
What is marble is broken down into pieces using a hammer?
The theory that pieces of Earth’s lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle
What is Theory of Plate Tectonics
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a (blank) boundary and (blank) occurs here where new ocean floor is formed
What is divergent boundary; sea-floor spreading