Investigation 6 — Metamorphic rocks

Question 1

Foliated

Answer 1

Consisting of layers of different minerals

Question 2

Nonfoliated

Answer 2

Metamorphic rock having a uniform consistency

Question 3

Continental drift

Answer 3

The theory that at one point in time, all the continents were united into one huge super-continent, and then was broken up into the continents we know today due to plate movement

Question 4

The rock cycle

Answer 4

A model of the way rocks change form

Question 5

plate boundaries

Answer 5

edges where plates meet

Question 6

convergent boundary

Answer 6

when plates move towards from each other

Question 7

divergent boundary

Answer 7

when plates move away from each other

Question 8

transform boundary

Answer 8

when plates move past one another

Question 9

subduction zone

Answer 9

Plates along a convergent boundary where one plate moves under another plate

Question 10

convection

Answer 10

The rising and falling of fluids, like the mantle, due to heating and cooling

Question 11

Pangea

Answer 11

a giant super continent that was broken into separate continents

Question 12

metamorphic rock

Answer 12

Rock that changes shape due to heat and pressure

Question 13

igneous rock

Answer 13

rock that has been cooled from magma and/or lava

Question 14

sedimentary rock

Answer 14

A rock formed from sediments compacting into one