EH *Inv 4 Vocab: Mountains & Metamorphic Rocks

Plates sliding past each other.

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

A crack in Earth’s crust due to movement.

• fault

• foliation

• folding

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

When plate movement pushes a piece of crust up.

• fault

• uplift

• subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A cycle where rocks are always slowly changing.

• uplift

• folding

• rock cycle

When plates move and bend rock layers.

• subduction

• folding

• foliation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When thin, flaky layers form.

• folding

• foliation

• rock cycle

Deep area in the ocean created by subduction. 

• folding

• trench

• divergent boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates going away from each other.

• transform boundary

• divergent boundary

• subduction boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Any rock that has changed from another rock .

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Plates going toward each other.

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary