-Forces deep inside Earth and at the surface build, destroy, and change the rocks in the crust.

the process of ............................. breaks down granite into sediment that gets carried away and dropped by the wind.

-The granite in Granite Mountain formed millions of years ago below Earth's surface as ..................... cooled.

-the igneous rock sandstone of Granite Mountain could become the sedimentary rock granite.

.................................... crust is the dense type of crust that is found at the bottom of the ocean ..

Continental crust is ............................. than oceanic crust and is almost always thicker.

The tectonic plates move because they are part of convection currents in .........................

.........................................is a cyclical movement of fluid driven by temperature differences at the top and bottom

states that Earth's lithosphere the crust and upper part of the mantle is broken up into distinct plates.

-Earth's ............................. is made up of huge plates that slowly move over Earth's surface due to convection currents in the mantle.