Endogenic Processes

Question 1

Eruption of molten rock onto the earth’s surface

Answer 1

Volcanism

Question 2

Molten rock deep below the surface

Answer 2

Magma

Question 3

Change in temperature

Answer 3

Geothermal gradient

Question 4

Long narrow zones where one lithospheric plate descends into another

Answer 4

Subduction zone

Question 5

Melting caused by decreasing pressure

Answer 5

Pressure-release melting

Question 6

A process where texture and mineral components of a rock change

Answer 6

Metamorphism

Question 7

Created by the interaction of a subducting oceanic lithosphere and a mantle along a convergence

Answer 7

Friction

Question 8

Vent in the surface where magma is released during an eruption

Answer 8

Volcano

Question 9

Change in the rock’s shape and size

Answer 9

Deformation

Question 10

Typr of deformation where rocks are subjected to tectonic forces on both sides

Answer 10

Folding

Question 11

If there are no movement in both sides of the fracture, then it is called a ________.

Answer 11

Joint

Question 12

Movement on either side of the tectonic plate, then it is called a ________.

Answer 12

Fault

Question 13

Result of displacement of rock layer or strata along a fault

Answer 13

Faulting

Question 14

Vertical movement of the plates

Answer 14

Dip-slip faults

Question 15

Horizontal and parallel movement in the fault

Answer 15

Strike-slip fault

Question 16

Two plates moving away from each other

Answer 16

Divergence / Normal fault

Question 17

Two plates moving into each other

Answer 17

Convergence / Reverse fault

Question 18

Rocks are pushed in opposite direction

Answer 18

Transform fault

Question 19

Proposal that continents has always been stationary and not moving

Answer 19

Continental acrretion theory

Question 20

Explains how oceans accumulated the denser elements then subsided to form basins

Answer 20

Continental assimation hypothesis

Question 21

Present continents split apart with the expansion of Earth.

Answer 21

Expanding Earth hypothesis

Question 22

Gradual movement of plates over time

Answer 22

Continental Drift

Question 23

Large slabs in the crust’s upper layer

Answer 23

Plates

Question 24

Movement of these plates above a fluid of molten rock

Answer 24

Plate tectonics

Question 25

A supercontinent existed between 275 - 175 MA

Answer 25

Pangaea

Question 26

Explains that continents are moving and smashing and separating in the span of Earth’s history. Proposed by Alfred Wegener

Answer 26

Continental Drift Theory

Question 27

Tectonic plates diverging apart from each other, creating new crust on it’s way.

Answer 27

Seafloor spreading

Question 28

Large mountain ranges rising from the sea-floor as a result of seafloor spreading

Answer 28

Mid-ocean ridges

Question 29

When two plates crashes to each other as a result of continental movement

Answer 29

Subduction

Question 30

Tectonic plates crash into each other instead of moving apart

Answer 30

Subduction