Current Events
All convection currents are made possible by these two things.
What is heat and pressure?
All volcanoes share this common trait.
What is the flowing energy from Earth's interior?
This makes precipitation and runoff possible.
What is gravity?
This is the breaking of rock into smaller pieces from non-chemical processes.
What is physical weathering?
This natural effect allows humans to inhabit Earth.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Burning less fossil fuel can help slow down this process.
What is chemical weathering?
Ocean temperatures warm up thanks to this, especially during the summer months.
What is radiation from the Sun?
This is the gaseous state of water.
What is vapor?
Plants cause weathering by doing this.
What is sprouting seeds and growing roots, causing the rock to break?
This is responsible for the movement of large plates and formation of volcanoes.
What is thermal energy?
What is chemical weathering?
This is the part of the rock cycle that occurs beneath the Earth.
What is melting?
This event is demonstrated by rainstorms.
What is precipitation?
This type of rock is formed from cooling of magna.
What is Igneous Rock?
This is needed to change the state of water.
What is energy?
This is the difference between sleet and hail.
What is slate occurring when it's cold and hail occurring during any temperature?
This type of rock is formed by heat and pressure of rocks in the solid phase.
What is metamorphic rock?
This event occurs after a rainstorm.
What is runoff into bodies of water?
Ocean crust is formed at this type of boundary.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
Oxygen reacting with iron in rocks is an example of this.
What is chemical weathering (oxidation)?
This is where convection currents occur.
What is the mantle?
When an earthquake happens, this is what is happening below the Earth's surface.
What are plates slipping sideways relative to one another?
This event occurs due to the heat of the sun following runoff from a rainstorm.
What is evaporation?
This type of rock follows the compression/cementation of sand into sedimentary rock. Then the sedimentary rock is compressed/ heated up to create this.
What is metamorphic rock?
Volcanic Eruptions, earthquakes, and valley formation are all caused by this.
What is the flow of thermal energy inside the Earth?