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Tectonic Plates
Sedimentary Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Igneous Rock
Volcanoes
100
Form under the surface
What are tectonic plates?
100
plates are bounded by an connected network of ridges
What are spreading centers?
100
Meaning to change shape.
What is morphic?
100
began as magma
What was an igneous rock?
100
Formed by colliding plates.
What are mountains?
200
Action forming Volcano's
What is Colliding?
200
Rock with layers
What is a sedimentary rock?
200
alligned grains of flat minerals.
What is foliated?
200
when rock is heated
What is one way to form magma?
200
the action of lava flowing from the volcano
What is erupting?
300
This actions happens when a tectonic plate comes over another.
What is subducting?
300
lyers of rock
What is strata?
300
Mineral grains formed in plains or bands.
What is Non-foliated?
300
mixture of many minerals
What is magma?
300
magma cools at 700 through 1250 degrees celcius.
What is magma freezing?
400
Plate tectonics move.
What is shifting?
400
compacted to form sedimentary rocks
What are sediments?
400
takes place deep in the earth.
What is Regoinal Metamorphism?
400
light colored rock that are rich in alumininum.potassium and sodium.
What is felsic?
400
forms igneous rock
What is cooled lava?
500
plates are bounded by an connected network of ridges
What are reading centers?
500
Fragment of rock cemented together with calcite or quartz.
What is clastic?
500
magma increased temperature changed the composition
What is Contact metamorphism?
500
took longer to cool giving crystals more time to form.
What is coarse grained?
500
magma
What is in the inside of a volcano?