Rock 'N' Roll
This theory states that Earth's crust is composed of rock plates that float on top of the mantle.
What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
This famous location across Earth is surrounded by volcanoes across its rim.
What is the Ring of Fire?
This is the breakdown of rock and sediments in smaller pieces.
What is Physical Weathering?
This is forms from the remains of plants and animals.
What is humus?
What is an earthquake?
This is the difference between chemical weathering and physical weathering.
What is the creation of a new substance through chemical weathering?
This is a positive impact that Volcanoes provide.
What is releasing materials that form fertile soil?
Abrasion occurs due to this.
What is friction?
This affects the particle size and composition of soil.
What is the environment?
These land features are most likely to be found near convergent plate boundaries.
What are volcanoes and mountains?
This makes earthquakes more deadly than tsunamis.
What is an earthquake's ability to occur anywhere & earthquakes' ability can cause tsunamis?
This forms from the weathering of bedrock.
What is soil?
This characteristic of water causes frost wedging.
What is the expansion of water when it freezes?
This is the reason farming practices such as terraced fields is important to soil conversation.
What is the prevention of erosion and loss of soil, since soil is a nonrenewable resource?
Tropical rainforests have a thin layer of this type of soil.
What is topsoil?
This unconsolidated material contains nutrient matter and weathered rock.
What is soil?
This layer of soil determines how fertile the soil is.
What is topsoil?
This is how moving water contributes to physical weathering.
What is causing rocks to bump up against each other?
This might cause a well to hold less water.
What is a dried out aquifer?
This happens when heat and pressure change one type of rock into another?
What is metamorphism?
This is most likely responsible for the formation of limestone caves.
What is carbonation?
This is the order of particles that give texture to soil from smallest to largest.
What is clay, silt, and sand?
This is the peeling off of outer layers of rock due to temperature changes.
What is exfoliation?
This is how valleys & mountain ranges are formed.
1. Tensions in the Earth's plates create a series of normal faults
2. Blocks of crust dropped down along some faults to become basins or valleys
3. The blocks of crust that remain higher became the mountain ranges and ridges
This is how sea arches and sea stacks are formed.
1. Waves, wind, and salt water soften and dissolve rock
2. weathering and erosion remove the soft rock
3. erosion forms a hole in the rock to create a sea arch
4. More erosion leads to the arch collapsing and forming a sea stack