science vocab

3. drift-wegners hypothesis that all continents were once connected in a single large landmass that broke apart about 200 million years ago and drifted slowly to their current positions
4. The process that occurs when one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate.
6. A naturally occurring solid composed of minerals, rock fragments and sometimes other materials such as organic matter.
10. The atmospheric conditions along with short term changes of a certain plate at a certain time.
12. The process through which sediment trunks into rock
13. floor spreading-the process by which new ocean crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older ocean moves away from the ridge.
15. a process in which minerals dissolve in water crystallize between sediment grains.

1. the process in which the waite from the layers of sediment forces out fluids and decreases the movement between sediment grains.
2. boundaries- The bonderel between two plates that slid past each other.
3. boundary-the boundary between two plats that moves towards each other
5. boundary- The bonderel between two plates that move away from each other.
7. The laying down or settling of eroded material.
8. The moving of weathered material or sediment from one location to another.
9. rock- Ingestion rock that form as magma cools under ground
11. tectonics-the theory that earth's surface is broken into large rigid pisces that move with respect of one another
14. cycle- the series in which of processes that change one type of rock.