energy from Earth’s interior drives convection
Does earths convection go up or down
up
Has the grand canyon been weathered in the past 100 years
Yes it has
whats is another name for magma
lava
Has the earths surface changed in the last 1 million years
yes
what is a fossil
remains from dead organisms
magma
What is weathering
breaking down or dissolving rocks and minerals
what is another name for mounting building
orogeny
what is another name for changing the earth surface
weathering
what are the main types of rocks
sedimentary, ingenues, and metaphoric
Are we closer to the center of the earth or the moon
the center of the earth
Is crystallization more soluble to hot liquids or cold liquids
hot liquids
what is a volcanic chain
a chain of volcanoes that are thousands of miles long
how are islands forms
when the tops of valances appear above the water
what are continental shapes
provides past information about the movement of the continental shapes
Does the heat rise or fall
it rises
What deforms a rock
when the earths rust is compressed or stretched
how are mountains formed
when two continental plates collide
is plates move away from each other what do they create
deep see trenches or valleys
what is past plate motion
where the plates hit or slide on each other when moving
How does convection heat
currents and gas
How hot does it have to be to melt a rock
between 1,100 and 2,400
what is seafloor spreading
when tectonic plates split apart from each other
how many major tectonic plates are there
7
what is seafloor structures
continental shelf, slop, and rise