plate tectonics

7. the chemical and physical process that breaks down rock at the earths surface.
9. the force that occurs at a transform boundary.
12. the theory that the continents slowly move across earths surface
14. A line on a topographic map that connects points of equal elevation.
15. the study of the solid earth.
16. The process by which sediments are pressed together under the own weight.
17. a break or crack in the earth’s lithosphere along which rocks move.
19. Small, solid particles of material from rocks or organisms that are moved by water or wind, resulting in erosion and deposition.
20. A series of processes on the surface and inside Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.
22. the type of rock that is formed when heat & pressure is applied to it.
23. The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves fragments of rock and soil.

1. a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
2. the process when oceanic crust sinks beneath a continental crust.
3. a plate boundary where two plates move towards each other.
4. Stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks
5. The layer of hot, solid materials between Earth’s crust and core.
6. the layer of rock that forms earths outer surface.
8. a plate boundary where two plates move past other in opposite dirctions.
10. the transfer of thermal energy by movements of a fluid.
11. a type of map usually using contour lines that shows natural features on the earth’s surface.
13. a type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface.
18. the force that occurs at a divergent boundary
21. the process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind the is carrying it and is deposited in a new location.