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Question | Answer |
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how is an igneous rock made? | melting and cooling |
How is a sedimentary rock made? | weathering/erosion compaction/compression. |
How is a metamorphic rock made? | heat and pressure. |
Describe the crystals of an igneous rock that cools in the earth. | large and coarse |
Where are sedimentary rocks formed at? | the bottom of the ocean |
sediments that are pressed and stuck together are called | Clastic rock |
Organic rocks are what? | sediments that form from the remains of plants and animals. |
What theory is Alfred Wegener famous for? | continental drift |
What is subduction? | When oceanic crust slides under other oceanic crust or continental crust. |
where do earthquakes occur? | transform and sometimes convergent boundaries. |
Name the transform boundary in California | San Andres fault. |
What is Pangea? | A long time ago all the continents used to be joined together to form a supercontinent called Pangea. |
What happens in the Mantle that makes the continents move? | convection currents |
What is weathering? | the breaking down of rocks to form sediments. |
What is erosion? | the movement of sediments. |
which layer of earth is the thickest? | the Mantle |
Before lava reaches the surface it is called what? | Magma |
the mid Atlantic ridge is what kind of boundary? | Divergent boundary |
What two metals make up the core? | nickel and iron |
What type of fault does a transform boundary have? | strike-slip |
What kind of crust action occurs at a convergent boundary? | recycling |
What is deposition? | its when sediments drop out of the flowing water or wind. |
How many kinds of igneous rocks are there? | two |
what kind of rock is basalt? | extrusive igneous |
What kind of rock is granite? | intrusive igneous |