Earth Review

What boundary forms when two plates move away from eachother?

What is the energy released by an earthquake measured in?

Body parts that are similar in structure and position but different in function

What is the process when one plate moves under the other?

What is a crack in Earth’s crust where movement occurs

Refers to the mechanical and chemical processes that change Earth’s surface over time.

What states that the Earth's surface is made up of lage ridged pieces that move?

What is the weak, partially melted layer of the mantle?

what process can change a igneous rock into a metamorphic rock?

The dense metallic center of the earth is the _______.

The largest earthquakes occur at this plate boundary.

What is the process where layers of rock are pushed together?

Body parts that perform a similar function but differ in structure

What is not part of the lithosphere?

What is the process of breaking rock apart?

What type of igneous rock forms when lava cools?

The material formed from rocks broken down by weathering.

What type of rock forms under heat and pressure?

The downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil due to gravity

Body parts that have lost their original function through evolution.

What are large masses of ice, formed by snow accumulation on land?

What are vents in Earth’s crust through which molten lava flows?

A parallel line of volcanoes from at which plate boundary?

The core of the earth is made up of___________.

What process can change an igneous rock into a sedimentary rock?

What is the material that is carried when rock is broken down?

Chemical weathering happens fastest under which conditions?

What state of matter is the inner core?

What type of igneous rock forms when magma cools?

A ____________resource can be replaced as quickly as it is consumed.

What is a crack in the earth along a plate boundary?

Mountain ranges form at which plate boundary?

What type of rock forms when magma or lava cools?

True or false: When volcanoes erupt explosively, they can affect the weather globally.

what is the process of carrying away sediment?

A subduction occurs at which plate boundary?

What causes the plates to move?

Which is evidence that a convergent boundary existed in an area?

Which is the most dense layer of the geosphere?

Process that changes the chemical composition of the rock

What boundary forms when two plates move towards eachother?

What process can change a sedimentary rock into an igneous rock?

What type of rock is formed from layers of sediment?

Mid-ocean ridges form at which plate boundary?

Process of breaking down the rock without changing the composition of the rock.

What is the thin outer layer of the geosphere?

What is the middle layer of the geosphere?

What happends when a fault ruptures?

Continental crust is ______ dense than oceanic crust.

What boundary forms when two plates slide past eachother?

The core, mantle and crust are classified by_____________.

What is the process where layers of sediment are piled on the earth?

What is the circulation of fluids caused by temperature and density differences?

The layers of the earth separate because of differences in __________.