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40 Cards in this Set
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Three types of rocks |
Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic |
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Movement of materials in liquids and gases |
Convection |
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Earth's Outer Layer |
Crust |
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Middle layer of the Earth |
Mantle |
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Solid, innermost layer of Earth |
Core |
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Made of crust and outer layer of mantle |
Lithosphere |
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Process that changes one type of rock into any other Formation, breakdown and reformation of rocks |
Rock Cycle |
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Formed by melting |
Igneous Rock |
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Formed by heat and pressure |
Metamorphic Rock |
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Formed by weathering and erosion |
Sedimentary Rock |
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Caused by plates colliding |
Earthquakes or Mountain formation |
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Rusting is an example |
Chemical Weathering |
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Rock made from volcanoes |
Igneous Rock |
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Least explosive volcano Hawaiian Islands |
Shield |
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Rock formation, fossils, ancient climate |
Evidence of continental drift |
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Single land mass |
Pangaea |
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Process that forms new ocean crust at mid-ocean ridges, and destroys old ocean crust at deep sea trenches |
Sea-floor Spreading |
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Boundary where two tectonic plates slide horizontally |
Transform boundaries (Faults) |
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Opening that allows magma to the surface |
Volcano |
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Two tectonic plates moving apart |
Divergent |
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Discovered theory of continental drift |
Wegner |
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Wave caused by earthquake on the ocean floor |
Tsunami |
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Caused by water freezing and expanding |
Physical Weathering |
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Youngest part of the sea-floor |
In the middle |
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Oldest part of the sea-floor |
On the edges |
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Movement of the oceanic crust beneath the continental crust |
subduction |
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driving force of plate tectonics movement of the mantle in circular pattern (hotter mantle rises and cooler mantle sinks) |
Convection Currents |
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Explosive volcanoes |
Composite or cinder cone |
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plates that move together |
convergent |
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opening of a volcano |
vent |
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Site of youngest layer of rocks in soil profile |
at the top |
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Site of oldest rock layer in soil profile |
on the bottom |
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Breaking down of rock into smaller particles |
weathering |
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movement of weathered material from one place to another |
erosion |
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where oldest fossils are found |
on the bottom |
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where youngest fossils are found |
on the top |
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Causes erosion in deserts |
wind |
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adding plants to hillside |
decreases erosion |
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stream velocity decreases |
deposition increases |
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stream velocity increases |
deposition decreases |
