What Other Forces Shape Earth's Surface?
The two processes that break Earth down
Weathering
Erosion
Cracks in the crust
Someone who studies Earth
geologist
What is located below the mantle?
402-403
Outer/Inner Core
What planet has thousands of volcanoes?
Venus
When the crust is exposed to water, air, and changes in temperature
This device senses the vibrations from earthquakes
Seismographs
A crack in the crust
Fault
Boulders can be split apart by what?
406-407
Water
What planet has the highest volcano in the solar system?
Mars
Olympus Mons
Acid can eat away at rock, forming large caverns made of
Limestone
Name the famous fault in California
San Andreas
What magma is called when it reaches the surface
Lava
Name an island formed from an undersea volcano
404-405
Surtsey
What moon in our solar system may have life?
Europa
Water can wear big rocks (boulders) into small chunks of rock called
Pebbles
Sea level
These chunks of rock from space strike the surface
meteorite
What is it called when the crust is pulled apart in opposite directions?
404-405
Tension
Name two spacecraft
Voyager and Galileo