Unit 2 • Lesson 2,4,5,6,7 — Vocabulary Words

Question 1

The process by which water, wind, ice, and changes in temperature break down rock.

Answer 1

Weathering

Question 2

The process where sediment is moved from one place to another.

Answer 2

Erosion

Question 3

The process where sediment comes to rest

Answer 3

Deposition

Question 4

When magma or lava cools and hardens to become a solid

Answer 4

Igneous rock

Question 5

Forms when minerals that form from solutions or sediment from older rocks get pressed and cemented together.

Answer 5

Sedimentary rock.

Question 6

Forms when pressure, temperature, or chemical processes change existing rock.

Answer 6

Metamorphic rock.

Question 7

The series of processes in when rock changes from one type to another.

Answer 7

The rock cycle.

Question 8

The rising of regions of the crust to higher elevations.

Answer 8

Uplift

Question 9

is the sinking of regions of the crust to lower elevations.

Answer 9

Subsidence

Question 10

An area where a set if deep cracks form.

Answer 10

A rift zone

Question 11

The outermost solid layer of Earth

Answer 11

The crust

Question 12

Located between the core and crust.

Answer 12

The mantle

Question 13

The moment of matter that results from differences in density caused by variations of temperature

Answer 13

Convection.

Question 14

Extends from below the mantle to the center of Earth.

Answer 14

The core.

Question 15

The outermost, ridged layer is

Answer 15

Lithosphere.

Question 16

A layer of weak or soft mantle that is made of rock that flows slowly.

Answer 16

Asthenosphere.

Question 17

The strong, lower part of the mantle

Answer 17

The mesosphere.

Question 18

The continents were joined together called

Answer 18

Pangea.

Question 19

To explain the age and magnetic patterns of sea-floor rocks, scientists proposed an process called

Answer 19

Sea-floor spreading

Question 20

Describe large scale movements of Earth’s lithosphere.

Answer 20

Plate tectonics.

Question 21

They lithosphere is divided called

Answer 21

Tectonic plates.

Question 22

Form when two plates collide

Answer 22

Convergent boundaries.

Question 23

Two plates that move away from each other.

Answer 23

Divergent boundaries

Question 24

Which two plates move past each other horizontally

Answer 24

A transform boundary

Question 25

Changing of shape

Answer 25

Deformation

Question 26

Wen rock layers bend under stress

Answer 26

Folding

Question 27

When larges blocks of rock break and move past each other.

Answer 27

A fault.

Question 28

Stress that pushes rocks in parallel but opposite directions

Answer 28

Shear stress.

Question 29

Stress that stretches or pulls rocks apart.

Answer 29

Tension

Question 30

Pressure that squeezes are pushes rocks together.

Answer 30

Compression