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WorksheetsRock cycle vocab
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The cycle linking the process which form igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic.
Pangaea
Rock cycle
Rocks made from magma that has cooled and solidify.
Igneous rock
Mid-ocean ridge
Rocks formed under extreme pressure and temperature from existing rock.
Crust
metamorphic
Rocks made from layers of sediment and dead creatures pressurized and cemented and cemented together
sedimentary
continental drift
Igneous rock that formed below the earth's surface and which is made of large.
Intrusive
Transform boundary
Igneous rock that formed above the earths surface and which is made of very small crystal's.
Extrusive
Crust
Hot molten rock below the earth's surface.
Convergent boundary
Magma
Hot molten rock from below earth's surface that is expelled by volcanoes.
Lava
Theory of Plate tectonics
The theory that earths continentals were once joined as a sing land mass.
Continental drift
Mid-ocean ridge
The name of the giant continental that had once been joined together.
Pangaea
Hot spot
Huge under water mountains
Lithosphere
Mid-ocean ridge
The theorist that earth's lithosphere is mad of huge plate that move over the surface of the earth.
Mid-ocean ridge
Theory of Plate Tectonics
The process where hot soft rock rises, cools and sinks, then is heated and rises again.
convection current
Pangaea
A thin layer of cool rock that surrounds Earth's surface.
Crust
Metamorphic
Earth's crust and the very top of the mantle.
Lithosphere
Magma
Occur where plate move apart. Most divergent boundaries are found in the ocean.
Divergent boundary
Magma
Occurs where plates scrape past each other.
Transform Boundary
Intrusive
Place where heated rock rises inplumes, of thin columns, from the mantle.
Pangaea
Hot Spot
