Earth Systems TCAP Vocab Game

2. tectonic plates move toward each other, usally forms mountains and volcanoes.
3. an oppening in the Earth's crust through which molten rock is pushed out and creates new rock.
8. Sudden events that lead to mass extinction.
11. name of the super-continent when it was all one landmass.
14. deep, elongated depressions in the ocean, often associated with subduction zones.
15. instruments used to measure and record seismic waves.
16. A group of the same species living in the same area.
18. located between the mantle and the outer core.
19. fractures or zones of weakness in the Earth's crust.
21. includes the crust and upper part of the mantle, and is divided into tectonic plates.

1. Extinction events that occur over a longer period of time.
4. forms after weathering and erosion when sediments compact and cement.
5. Hot material rises and cooler material sinks. It drives plate tectonics.
6. tectonic plates move away from each other, usally forms new crust and rift valleys.
7. new oceanic crust is formed as tectonic pltes pull apart and magma rises.
9. the semi-fluid layer of the mantle where convention currents happen.
10. Rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens.
12. large, rigid pieces of the earth's Lithosphere that move and interact with each other along plate boundaries.
13. Formed as a result of high temperature and pressure deep whiten the earth changing a rock that already existed.
17. where tectonic plates SLIDE past each other. Causes earthquakes.
20. formed at plate boundries usally when plates collide.