Plate Boundaries
What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move apart?
What is a divergent boundary?
What is the thin, outermost layer of Earth called?
What is the crust?
What do scientists call the large pieces of Earth’s lithosphere that move slowly over time?
What are plate tectonics
What type of rock forms when magma or lava cools and hardens?
What is igneous rock?
What weighs more, assesments or assignments?
What are assignments?
What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other?
What is a transform boundary?
Which layer of Earth is the thickest?
What is the mantle?
What was the name of the ancient supercontinent in which nearly all of Earth’s landmasses were joined?
What is Pangaea?
What type of rock forms when sediments are compacted and cemented together?
What is sedimentary rock?
How many points are each of your homework assignments in Mrs. Hunter's Class?
25 pts a piece. Monday through Thursday!
What is the process called when one tectonic plate sinks beneath another plate?
What is subduction/the subduction zone?
Which layer is made mostly of liquid iron and nickel?
What theory explains the movement of Earth’s lithospheric plates?
What process breaks rock into smaller pieces without moving those pieces away?
What is weathering?
How many classroom rules are mandatory to follow everyday?
What are 5 rules?
Two continental plates collide and push the land upward. What major landform may form?
What is a mountain range?
What is the rigid outer layer made of Earth’s crust and the uppermost mantle called?
What is the lithosphere?
What are two pieces of evidence that support the idea that continents were once connected?
What are matching fossils, matching rock formations, or the fit of continental coastlines?
What two processes can change existing rock into metamorphic rock?
What are heat and pressure?
What is your Principal's name?
Who is Ms. Robinson?
An oceanic plate moves beneath a continental plate. Name two geological features or events that may result.
What are ocean trenches, volcanoes, and earthquakes?
Earth’s inner core is extremely hot, yet it remains solid. What keeps it from melting?
What is the enormous pressure from the layers above it?
A scientist finds matching fossils on two continents separated by an ocean. How does this evidence support continental drift?
What is evidence that the continents were once connected or closer together, allowing the same organisms to live across those areas?
A rock is broken down into sediment, the sediment is deposited and becomes sedimentary rock, and then heat and pressure change it. What type of rock forms at the end?
What is metamorphic rock?
How many topics are on your Unit 2 quiz?
4 - Plate boundaries, plate tectonics, earth layers, the rock cycle