Stratigraphic Columns
Oldest to Youngest
FEDCBA
Weathering breaks down rocks into
This layer of the Earth is the deepest within the Earth
Inner core
What hit the Earth and Killed the dinosaurs?
Meteor
Convergent
Oldest to youngest
NATGJS
Heat and pressure form what type of rock?
Metamorphic
This layer of the Earth is A mix between liquid and solid (chunky chicken noodle soup)
Asthenosphere
Site 2
The plate boundary where one plate slides by the other one
Transform
Oldest to youngest
ECBDA
This rock is formed by cooling magma or lava
Igneous
What layer of the Earth is broken into tectonic plates?
Crust
Spherules are found where
All over the world
This type of plate boundary causes features like ocean ridges
Divergent
The law of Superposition says
Older rocks are on the bottom. Younger rocks are on top
Metamorphism that is caused by direct contact with heat
What are the 2 types of crust?
Oceanic and contenetal
The geologic boundary between the Cretaceous and the Tertiary time period
K-T boundary
What type of boundary formed the Andes Mountains
Convergent
Everything that happens now could happen in the past
Uniformitarianism
What things have to happen to form a sedimentary rock
Weathering, Erosion, and deposition
Continental
If Tektites are found at a boundary is it close or far from the site?
Close
A hotspot formed what islands
Hawiian