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Earthquakes
Rock Cycle
Continental Drift
Mountains
Volcanos
100
Is the characteristic of the Earth's crust that causes the lithosphere to crack during Earthquakes.
What is the lithosphere is brittle
100
freezing and thawing of water causing rocks to break into sediments.
What is weathering and erosion.
100
Continents look like puzzle pieces
What is one piece of evidence that continental drift is real
100
Have sheer faces
What are fault block mountains
100
The ring of fire
where does the most volcanic activity takes place on Earth.
200
This causes faults to form
What is high stress in the brittle rock
200
is the process that makes metamorphic rocks
What is heat and pressure
200
Fossils of the same organisms are found on several different continents.
What is a piece of evidence that continental drift is real.
200
Have sharp peaks
What are folded mountains
200
Hot Spot
What is right above a magma plume
300
This causes tsunamis
What are earthquakes underwater
300
This contains sand, shells, and small pebbles
What is sedimentary rock?
300
diverging, converging and transforming plates
What causes continents to drift?
300
when one plate is forced under another plate causing that plate to rise
What is how fault block mountains are made(formed)
300
Shield Volcanos
What forms because of "fast" moving magma due to it having less silica.
400
Earthquakes happen along these boundaries
What convergent, divergent and transform
400
Obsidian
What is an example of igneous rock.
400
When oceanic crust goes under continental crust
What is subduction?
400
forms folded Mountains
What is when 2 continental plates collide
400
Cone Shaped
What is the shape of a Stratavolcano?
500
Is directly above the hypocenter
What is the epicenter
500
Marble
What is an example of metamorphic rock
500
Is the reason why Africa and South America look like they "fit" together.
What is because they were once part of the same giant land mass (Pangea)
500
When the Indian Plate crashed into the Eurasian Plate
What is what formed the Himalayas.
500
It forms volcanoes and/or causes volcanoes to erupt
What happens when magma from the plume cracks through the crust of the earth?