Wildcard
The earths crust is also called
What are tectonic plates
Plate boundaries move apart bringing magma (molten lava) from the mantel to the earths surface.
What is Divergent Plate Boundaries
A law that states "Rock Strata has fossils that are older in the lower levels and younger at the upper levels"
What is the Law of Superposition
Rain, wind, and ice breaking down rocks. The process just before erosion.
What is Weathering?
The movement of our continents
What is the theory of Plate Tectonics
A supercontinent of one giant land mass
What is Pangaea
Tectonic Plate Boundaries that come together creating mountains and sea floor trenches
What is Convergent Plate Boundaries
The word that describes the motion of plates rising after converging, causing mountains.
What is Uplift?
Smaller broken down rocks
What is Sediment
Mineralized remains of organisms
What is Fossils
Layers of sedimentary rock.
What is Strata?
Two Tectonic Plate Boundaries sliding past each other, creating earthquakes
What is Transform Plate Boundaries
The series of processes that change one rock form to another rock form
What is the Rock Cycle?
The MOVEMENT of smaller broken down rocks...
The process just after weathering
What is Erosion
System of Chronological measurement that relates stratigraphy to time
What is the Geologic Time Scale
The process of sediment settling as sediment.
What is Sedimentation?
The separation of Tectonic Plates from the supercontinent/pangaea into puzzle pieces.
What is Continental drift?
A mountain which lava flows out of from the center of the earth.
What is a Volcano?
Sediment that settles as a result of erosion
What is Deposition?
Layers of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout
What is Rock Strata
Any natural process that happens to the earths surface such as weathering, erosion, or plate tectonics.
What is the Geoscience Process?
The earths crust and upper mantle is called...
What is the Lithosphere?
Tectonic plates move/float on this...
What is magma (molten lava)?
Thin outermost layer of the earth including the oceans floors.
What is the earths crust?
Scientific Law that states "fossils located in deeper rock strata are older than fossils located closer to the earths surface"
What is The Law of Superposition