Rock Cycle & Plate Tectonics Vocab Review

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Solidification of sediments by deposition of dissolved minerals in spaces between particles

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cementation

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Sediments squeezed by overlying weight driving out water

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compaction

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Hypothesis that continents were once a single supercontinent and drifted apart.

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Continental Drift

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Boundary where two plates move together

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convergent

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Boundary where two plates spread apart

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divergent

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Incorporation and transport of material by agents like water, wind, or ice.

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erosion

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Igneous rock formed on Earth's surface

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extrusive

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Metamorphic rock with a layered (banded) texture

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foliated

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Igneous rock formed below Earth's surface

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intrusive

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Magma that reaches the Earth's surface

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lava