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Small, solid fragments of rock-like gravel, sand, silt, mud, or clay
Sediment
Croation scientist Andrija Mohorovicic was the first to make use of data from this machine that is used to study earthquakes
seismographs
Any process that breaks down rocks and creates sediment.
Weathering
What it is called when rocks containing iron turn red.
Oxydation
Three types of rocks
Sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic
The sum of all water on a planet is called this.
Hydrosphere
Which rock type is formed when pressure and chemical reactions cement deposited materials together, often in layers?
Two forms of weathering.
mechanical weathering and chemical weathering
Curves created when fast-moving water slams into the far side of a river.
Meanders
Solid, naturally-occurring, inorganic substances that have a definite chemical composition and a crystalline structure.
Minerals
Evaporation of water from plants.
Transpiration
Which part of the Earth's core is molten liquid?
outer core
The process that moves sediment.
Erosion
Two different land features formed when sediments from rivers are deposited as their flow slows entering larger bodies of water.
alluvial fans and deltas
The earth's magnetic field is generated in which portion of the Earth?
The (outer) core
Water falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
Precipitation
Scientists know much about the Earth's interior because they observe which wave type?
seismic waves
A rock that behaves like something between a liquid and a solid
plastic rock
Mineral structures found in caves formed by water dripping from the ceiling.
Stalactites and stalagmites
Four of the six properties of minerals
Crystal structure, color, streak, luster, hardness, and fracture/cleavage
Evaporation and condensation of a mixture to separate out the mixture's individual components.
Distillation
What type of rock is formed from magma that rises to the Earth's surface, cools, and hardens?
igneous
The difference between erosion and weathering
Weathering breaks down rocks into sediment, and erosion carries the sediment away.
The largest source of liquid fresh water on Earth
groundwater
A series of processes in which forces within Earth and at the surface cause rocks to continuously change from one type to another.
The rock cycle