Layers of the Earth
Earth's layer that is made up of mostly silicon and oxygen?
What is mantle
List the rocks of the rock cycle.
What is sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous.
The shape of one continent that matches the shape of a nearby continent.
What is Pangaea?
Crust is created...
Where is divergent boundaries?
What is water quality?
The earth's layer that is described as liquid metal.
What is the outer core?
Metamorphic rock forms from...
Absolute dating of fossils is...
What is radioactive dating?
Crust is destroyed...
The amount of pollution in the air.
The lithosphere includes...
What is the crust and upper mantle?
The plate movement MOST responsible for earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?
As rocks move farther away from a Mid-Atlantic Ridge what is most likely happening?
What is getting older?
Two tectonic plates sliding past each other.
What is earthquakes?
The process by which gravity, water, wind, and ice remove and transport sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
The layer of the Earth that makes up the majority of the Earth's volume.
What is the core?
Igneous rock forms, mostly, from...
What is volcanic activity?
Determines how much time has passed since rocks formed by measuring the radioactive decay of uranium isotopes.
What is the absolute age of rocks?
Plate tectonics creates
What are ocean basins, mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes, seafloor spreading, and subduction zones.
Removal of a forest of section of trees for human use.
What is deforestation?
What are metals?
The processes that makes sedimentary rock.
What is compacting and cementing.
A location where you would NOT expect to observe earthquakes.
What is the ocean?
The rapid depletion of plant life and the loss of topsoil caused by a combination of drought and the overexploitation of grasses and other vegetation by people.
What is desertification?