Forces That Shape Earth

Molten rock beneath Earth's surface

• Magma
• Lava
• Igneous Rock
• Mineral

The outermost layer of the Earth.  It includes all dry land and the ocean floor

• Crust
• Mantle
• Core
• Volcano

Give an example of a RAPID change to Earth's surface

• Weathering
• Earthquake
• Erosion
• Blizzard

A person who studies rocks and the Earth's crust is called a:

• Biologist
• Zoologist
• Volcanologist
• Geologist

Where do most earthquakes happen? 

• buttes
• at faults 
• on plains
• in valleys 

What occurs when a denser plate sinks underneath a less dense plate? 

• slab-pull
• crust
• Subduction
• convection 

What type of mountain forms when magma is forced upward and flows onto Earth's surface? 

• Mantle
• Volcanic 
• Fault-block
• folded 

Earthquakes occur at this kind of plate boundary 

• separating plates 
• colliding plates 
• sliding plates
• folded mountains 

__________ mountains are formed when rock layers are compressed together. 

• buoyancy 
• uplift 
• volcanic 
• folded 

__________ forms when plates collide. 

• mid-ocean ridge 
• separating plates 
• density
• mantle