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Chapter 16 Review

Test Review for The Restless Earth

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Rocks formed from heat and pressure metamorphic
Process by which material is laid down or dropped to add a landform or land mass deposition
material (rock) that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion sediment
Rocks formed through volcanic activity igneous
The removal and transport of soil and rock by natural processes such as wind and water flow erosion
Rocks formed from pieces of other rocks that get cemented together sedimentary
Theory that stated that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted tp their present locations continental drift
Name of a large supercontinent Pangaea
The process when magma is forced up at the mid-ocean ridge, cools, and forms new crust sea-floor spreading
Underwater mountain ranges that stretch along the center of much of Earth's ocean floor mid-ocean ridges
German metetorologist who first proposed the theory of continental drift Alfred Wegener
When two plates collide convergent boundary
When plates pull a part or separate divergent boundary
When one plate slides past another transform boundary
Device used to measure movement of plates GPS
Places where tectonic plates touch boundaries
mountain building collision
one plate moves under another - volcanoes form subduction
Earth's lithosphere is divided into plates that move around on top of the aesthenosphere plate tectonics
The process by which the shape of a rock changes because of stress deformation
Stress that occurs when an object is squeezed compression
Stress that occurs when forces push in opposite directions shear
Stress that occurs when an object is streatched tension
A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to the other fault
The amount of force per unit area of a given material stress
Rising of the Earth's crust to higher elevations uplift
Hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall reverse fault
Opposing forces cause the rock to break and move horizontally strike-slip fault
Sinking of Earth's crust to lower elevations subsidence
Hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall normal fault
Deep cracks that form when two plates pull away from each other rift zone
The crust and upper mantel lithosphere
The molten plastic like layer of the lower mantle aesthenosphere
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