The breaking down and changing of rocks near Earth's surface

Continents had once been joined to form a single supercontinent

When the floor splits and moves apart at the vents

To change or morph

Removal and transport of weathered material from one location to another

AKA subduction zone

AKA spreading centers

Forms from cooling magma or lava

Tectonic plates move in different directions and at different rates over Earth's surface

Any solid mass of mineral or mineral-like matter that occurs naturally as part of our planet

Interactions among Earth's water, air, land, and living things can cause rocks to change from one type to another

A fossil or footprint, trail, burrow, or another trace of an animal.

Causing disruption, formed with magma, penetrates existing rock.

A hollow container is used to give shape.

Hot magma flows out to Earth's surface where lava explodes.

Two plates grind past each other without production and destruction of the lithosphere.

Temperature and pressure are high banded.

Fil coating with the chemical element of carbon plasma.

A scientist who works and talks about fossils.

History of life as documented by fossil files.

Fossils mold underground is filled with sediment to form a fossil.

The basic law of geochronology. Rock deposited in layers.

When minerals in solutions are associated with buried plant or animal remains.

Temperature is high but pressure is relatively low.

The unequal distribution of heat within Earth's surface.