Rock Cycle
Name that Rock
Plate Tectonics
Plate Boundaries
Constructive & Destructive
100
magma or lava cooling
How do igneous rocks form?
100
Limestone can change to marble due to intense heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
100
Causes the plates to move...
Convection currents in the mantle
100
The Himalayan Mountains form at this kind of boundary.
Convergent
100
A process that breaks down Earth's crust such as weathering and erosion.
Destructive
200
heat and pressure
How do metamorphic rocks form?
200
Shale forms when sediments like clay are compacted over many years.
What is sedimentary?
200
The reason why the same fossils and rocks are found on different continents.
They were once connected.
200
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is splitting apart...
Divergent
200
A process that builds Earth's crust such as mountains at convergent boundaries
constructive
300
Weathering and erosion of rocks
How do sediments form?
300
A volcano erupts and the lava forms obsidian.
What is igneous?
300
Two things that happen at a mid-ocean ridge.
The plates split apart, magma rises, lava forms new crust.
300
The San Andreas fault is moving one side of California North and one side South.
Transform
300
How did this form? Was it constructive or destructive?
Erosion, destructive
400
Sediments are compacted and cemented together in layers.
How do sedimentary rocks form?
400
A rock that has large crystals and cooled underground.
What is intrusive igneous?
400
Name two natural disasters that happen on the edges of the plates at the plate boundaries.
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
400
This happens when oceanic crust collides with continental OR oceanic crust...
Subduction Trench
400
When a river slows down it drops off sediments. What is this called & is it constructive or destructive?
Deposition, Constructive
500
Rocks being broken into smaller pieces due to acid in rain...
Chemical Weathering
500
A rock that has crystals and layers indicating how the rock was smashed.
What is metamorphic?
500
Name three of Earth's layers from hottest to coldest...
Core, Mantle, Crust
500
______ - two plates collide.
______ - two plates divide.
Convergent & Divergent
500
This process can build islands very quickly. What is it and is it constructive or destructive?
Volcano, Constructive