Big Moves
This is the term for large pieces of solid rock on Earth's surface.
What are tectonic plates?
Most earthquakes occur at these places.
What are plate boundaries?
This is where most volcanoes occur.
What are plate boundaries?
This type of rock is formed from sediments.
What are sedimentary rocks?
This mountain is decreasing in height.
What is Mount Mitchell?
This causes earthquakes to occur.
What is sudden snap of the plates as they slide past each other?
New crust is mainly formed here.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
This layer is under the crust where rock begins to melt and shift.
What is the mantle?
This is what happens when two plates push towards each other.
What is the process of mountain formation?
This term refers to a break in the bedrock.
What is a fault line?
Volcanoes are formed when these plates collide.
What are continental and oceanic plates?
This is what happens to rocks that are exposed to high heat and pressure.
What is creep?
This term describes movement away from each other.
What is divergent?
This is the most common magnitude range of earthquakes.
What is a magnitude of 3-5?
This is the process of forming new crust.
What is seafloor spreading?
This type of rock is commonly found in oceanic crust.
What is basalt?
A region has frequent earthquakes, but no volcanoes. It most likely has a _________ boundary there.
What is transform?
Earthquakes do not cause mountain change, but both are ___________ because they are both caused by plate movement.
What is correlated/correlation?
This explains why new islands form in the ocean.
What is volcanoes erupting and building layers of lava until the land rises above the water?
This is a physical property that describes how much matter is packed in a given volume. The more packed, the heavier the object is.
What is density?