Earth Science Midterm 2024

What is the type of boundary where plate move apart, creating new crust?

The outer core of the earth is made up of solid iron and nickel.

An continental plate has a higher density than an oceanic plate.

What is the name for the process where an oceanic plate sinks beneath a continental plate?

Which type of boundary happens when plates move towards each other causing mountains or volcanoes?

Which type of rocks contain fossils?

What are tectonic plates?

Most of earth's divergent boundaries are found at the bottom of the oceans.

Which is NOT a measurement in Geologic Time?

Erosion is the movement of sediments by natural forces like wind, water and ice.

What type of rock can have foliation from the pressure of the earth, causing the minerals within it to come together.

Mafic igneous rocks are _________ in color.

Fossils are found with the most recent plant or animal in the lowest layers of rock.

Rocks cannot transform from one type to another.

___________ is the breakdown of rocks by rain, wind, ice or chemical processes.

Extrusive igneous rock is quickly cooled down when it formed.

Earthquakes mostly occur along what type of boundary?

What type of rock is formed by heat and pressure causing a change of structure, but not melting?

Which is NOT used to reconstruct earth's history.

What type of rock is formed by the compaction or cementation of sediments?

What is the Earth's outer layer, which is made up of rock called?

Which type of rock is an example of igneous rock?

A fault is found by which type of boundary?

Which type of rock is formed from the cooling of magma or lava?

Robert Wegener's theory of Continental Drift was immediately accepted by the scientific community.

Which is an example of sedimentary rock?

Convection Currents are caused by the differences in heat found in the earth's mantle.

The inner core of the earth is solide iron and nickel, due to the immense pressure.

Felsic igneous rocks are ________ in color.

All igneous rock is extrusive and can be found only after being erupted from a volcano.