Earth Science Sol

The natural process by which atmospheric and environmental agents, such as wind, rain, and temperature change disintegrate, and decompose rocks.

• Erosion

• Plate Boundary

• Lithosphere

• Weathering

• Asthenosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies

• Erosion

• Granite Rock

• Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Rock Cycle

What is formed at location C?

• Intrusive Igneous Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Extrusive Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

What is formed at location D?

• Intrusive Igneous Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Extrusive Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

A rock that forms from other rocks as a result of intense heat, pressure, or chemical processes

• Granite

• Sedimentary Rock

• Igneous Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Continental Drift

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The movement of matter due to differences in density that are caused by temperature variations.

• Continental Drift

• Mantle

• Convection

• Plate Boundary

• Rock Cycle

The upper layer of the mantle made of partially molten rock and where the convection currents occur that cause the tectonic plates to move

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Erosion

• Plate Boundary

• Rock Cycle

A location where two tectonic plates interact and they can be divergent, convergent or transform.

• Plate Boundary

• Lithosphere

• Geological Time

• Erosion

• Continental Drift

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller land masses to form the continents

• Geological Time

• Erosion

• Subduction

• Continental Drift

• Plate Boundary

A naturally formed, inorganic solid with a crystalline structure

• Rock Cycle

• Metamorphic

• Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Mineral

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1