Rock Cycle
Rock in a liquid molten form beneath the Earth's surface is called?
Magma
The type of boundary where two plates are moving towards each other?
Convergent Boundary
True or False: Water is the only way for erosion to occur.
False.
Gigantic pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle that slowly move and interact with one another are called?
Tectonic Plates
Molten rock underneaths the Earth's surface is called?
Magma
A type of rock formed when magma hardens and cools.
Igneous Rock
The type of boundary where two plates are away from each other?
Divergent Boundary
The action of surface processes that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
Erosion
The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion is the theory of
Plate Tectonics
The Mid-Atlantic ridge is a landform created by this type of boundary?
Divergent Boundry
A type of rock that forms when sediments layer on top of each other and compress and cement together.
Sedimentary Rock
The type of boundary where two plates sliding past each other?
Transform Boundary
The breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals on Earths surface.
weathering
The scientist who first proposed the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
Alfred Wegener
Scientists found evidence of Pangaea using the solidified remains of plants and animals in rock called?
Fossils
A type of rock that forms when rock is exposed to high heat and pressure for a long time.
Metamorphic Rock
When continental crust moves towards continental crust a special convergent boundary is formed called a?
Collision Zone/boundary
Name one form of erosion.
Wind, water, coastal, etc
Alfred Wegener's theory of Plate Tectonics included the idea that after Pangaea, the continents slowly moved away from each other to the locations they are in today. This idea is called?
Continental Drift
Scientists found evidence of Pangaea using the scraping of rocks made by huge slow moving mountains of ice called?
Glaciers
Small pieces of rock, dirt, soil, sand that get carried away by water are called?
Sediments
A convergent boundary when one plate slides underneath another plate.
Subduction
How are erosion and weathering related?
Weathering breaks down rocks into sediments, which are then moved and carried away by Erosion.
What is Pangaea?
A supercontinent formed when all of the landmasses on Earth were connected together.
Scientists found evidence of Pangaea using similarities of these objects that were created in the same time period, and were the same types and formations spread across different continents.
Rocks and mountain ranges.