Dynamic Earth Vocabulary

process that changes one type of rock into another type of rock.

• Rock Cycle
• Plate Tectonics
• Fault
• Continental Drift

when magma cools and crystallizes.

• Intrusive Rock
• Extrusive Rock

when lava cools and crystallizes.

• Intrusive Rock
• Extrusive Rock

laying down, or settling of eroded material.

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

moving of weathered material, or sediment, from one location to another.

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

any natural process that changes objects on Earth’s surface over time.

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

a break in Earth’s crust along which movement occurs.

• Convergent Boundary
• Divergent Boundary
• Faults
• Transform Boundary

where plates slide horizontally past each other.

• Transform boundaries
• Convergent boundary
• Divergent boundary

two plates move apart from each other.

• Transform boundaries
• Convergent boundary
• Divergent boundary

two plates move toward each other.

• Transform boundaries
• Convergent boundary
• Divergent boundary