Layers of the earth
The layer of the earth outside of the inner core
What is the Outer core
The type of rock that is a result of sediment compacting and cementing
What is sedimentary rock
The boundary pushes against each other often forming a mountain.
What is a convergent boundary
A fold that goes down up down.
What is a Anticline
The rock that's made by lava cooling.
Igneous rock
The center layer of the earth
What is the Inner core
The resource the mantle is filled with.
What is magma
A giant wave of water usually caused by a transform boundary.
What is a tsunami.
A fold that goes up down up.
What is a Syncline.
The process of rocks and stuff breaking down physically or chemically.
Weathering
The outer layer of the Earth that we are on.
What is the Crust
The stuff that comes out of volcanos that we can see.
What is lava
A mountain range in the mid Atlantic ocean.
What is a mid atlantic ridge.
A fault where the higher rock and stuff goes up.
What is a Reverse Fault
Layers of rock
Strata
The bottom layer of the mantle
What is the asthenosphere
The rock formed from heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic rock
2 tectonic plates sliding past each other, often causing earthquakes.
What is a Transform boundary
A fault where the higher piece of rock and stuff goes down.
What is a Normal Fault
The process of rock and stuff being moved usually by wind or water.
Erosion
The layer of the mantle closest to the crust.
What is the Lithosphere
The rock material formed from weathering and erosion.
What is Sediment
A type of convergent boundary where one plate goes underneath another.
What is subduction.
A fault where the two pieces of rocks and stuff slide against each other.
What is a strike slip fault.
The concept that says older rock will be deeper in the crust
What is the Law of superposition.