Kategorier: Alle - rocks - lithosphere - volcanoes - boundaries

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Geology Concept Map

The lithosphere represents the Earth's outermost layer, crucially involved in the dynamics of tectonic plates. These plates interact at boundaries, which come in three main types: convergent, divergent, and transform.

Geology Concept Map

Rock

3 ways that rock can be formed

Igneous Rock
Rock formed from magma cools underground and lava cools above ground
Sedimentary Rock
Rock form from sediment transported by water/gas
Metamorphic Rock
Rock formed by heat of core, or pressure of moving tectonic plates

Earthquakes

Lithosphere

Top layer of Earth

Tectonic Plates

Cracks
Faults

Cracks are where boudaries are

Spot/Place where two plates meet
Boudaries

3 Types

Divergent Boudaries

When 2 plates spread apart, magma and rock will shoot up through crack to cause a mountainous form

2 plates pull away from each other

Convergent Boudaries

Causes land and magma to form upwards

2 Plates push each other; one is forced to go underneath

Subduction

Ridges

Mountain

Chains of mountains; tectonic plates extend upwards

one lithosphere tectonic plate goes under the other

Trench

Transform Boudary

Two plates pass by each other

Earthquakes causes cracks

Volcanoes

Lava

Molten Rock
Molten rock on top of ground

Magma

Molten rock under ground

Disruptions, and huge, intensive vibrations caused by the boudaries results in:

Geology Concept Map

Elements

Periodic Table
Are found in:
Will form-->
Minerals
Combine; breakdown

Soil

elements can be found in soil

Minerals combine
Naturally Occuring; Made up of one element