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The 18-week assessment study guide
| _____ rocks form when magma or lava cools. | igneous |
| A conglomerate is a _______ sedimentary rock, which means it formed from smaller (rounder) rock pieces cemented together. | clastic |
| ___________ rocks form when other types of rocks are subjected to intense heat and pressure. | Metamorphit |
| _________ metamorphism is a change in texture, structure, or chemical composition of rock due to a change in temperature and pressure over a large area. | Regional |
| Name some sedimentary rocks that are well sorted. | Shale, Sandstone |
| Metamorphic rocks that are __________ has been exposed to tremendous heat at tectonic plate boundaries, which caused its minerals to form layers or bands. | foliated |
| An igneous rock with large crystals most likely would have cooled ___________ below ground. An example is Granite. | intrusivly |
| This sedimentary rock often contains fossils, and forms from the remains or marine (sea) organisms. | Limestone |
| The _____________ is made up of the crust and rigid upper mantle. It's what the tectonic plates are made of. | lithospere |
| Name three pieces of evidence for continental drift from Wegener | Mesourus fossils found on Africa and America. Coastlines fit together like a puzzle. There are tropical plant fossils in Antarctica |
| You would find a subduction zone at a _____________ plate boundary. | convergent |
| The Ring of Fire is around the _________ ocean. | Pacific |
| The country of Iceland sits atop a __________ plate boundary. | Divergent |
| Sediment is thicker closer to the center of a mid-ocean ridge. | False |
| The sudden return of a deformed rock to its undeformed shape is called ______________. | Elastic rebound |
| The _______________ is the location on a fault where the first motion of an earthquake begins. | focus |
| Earthquakes with a __________ focus usually cause the most damage | shallow |
| The instrument used to record seismic waves is called a ___________ | seismogragh |
| A tsunami can be caused by an earthquake whose epicenter is on the __________ floor. | ocean |
| The measure of strength of an earth quake is called the ________ | magnitude |
| Earthquake strength is measured on the __________ scales | Richter or moment magnitude |
| The measure of int |
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