Landforms - study guide

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  1. 7. Alfred Wegener had studied the continents and found that rocks and fossils in
  2. 8. change the Earth’s surface during eruptions and build land.
  3. 11. when the transform boundary moves it _____ past each part of land
  4. 12. increases depth of the surface
  5. 13. Iron and nickel
  6. 14. thickest layer contains rock and thick magma
  7. 18. The Law of Conservation of mass states that different types of matter are _____ ________
  8. 20. What is a Tectonic plate moving called?
  9. 23. What occurs when two plates push against each other?
  10. 26. _____ forms from partial melting of mantle rocks.
  11. 28. heat energy is also referred as ____________
  12. 29. _______ provide information about life and conditions in the past
  13. 32. Extreme heat and pressure change one type of rock into a new __________ rock.
  14. 33. Tectonic plates is the scientific theory that Earth’s crust is divided up into _______ ______.
  15. 34. Transform boundary is also called the
  16. 35. Oceanic plates will subduct underneath __________ ______ mountains plates because oceanic plates are denser.
  17. 37. Most divergent boundaries form on the _____ _____
  18. 38. _______: a mix of two or more substances
  19. 40. layers of sediment become stuck together, forming a ___________ rock
  20. 41. Some eruptions are non violent while some are very _________
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  1. 1. What are the gigantic pieces of the earth?
  2. 2. continental plates cause________
  3. 3. most earthquakes and volcanoes are located at the boundary of the plates, they are called__________
  4. 4. made of iron and nickel
  5. 5. Mixtures do not lose their identifying _______________ when combined
  6. 6. after weathering they may be moved from one place to another. What is this called.
  7. 9. He studied fossils of continents that sat on crustal plates
  8. 10. When the Convergent boundaries move they...
  9. 14. ______ rock and gases erupt during a volcano
  10. 15. Why is the Inner core solid? Because of...
  11. 16. the divergent boundary plates move _____
  12. 17. ________ weathering is caused from a chemical reaction
  13. 19. what rock is it when, cooling magma becomes rock?
  14. 21. even if one is the same substance is dissolved in another substance, will it be seen. True Or False
  15. 22. Fossils can be found in different rock ______.
  16. 24. ________ weathering is caused by forces such as temperature changing overtime
  17. 25. __________ changes shape of land
  18. 27. the Transform Boundary causes the land to ____
  19. 30. higher temperatures within the _____ heating up magma, from convection currents
  20. 31. fossils are usually found in ___________ rocks.
  21. 36. ________: one substance dissolves in another
  22. 39. thinnest and outermost layer, made from rocky material