Climate
Rain, sleet, hail, and snow are examples of this.
What are forms of precipitation?
The breaking of rocks into smaller pieces by water, wind, temperature, and others.
What is weathering
A large, natural elevation of the Earth's surface.
What is a mountain?
Any of the huge blocks of crust the Earth is broken into.
What are plates?
The center of the planet, made of solid metal despite high temperatures.
What is the inner core?
How hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
Chemicals in the air combine with rain to form acid water.
What is chemical weathering?
The beginning of a river.
What is the river source?
Theory that states the crust of the planet is broken into plates that move against each other.
What is the Plate Tectonics Theory?
The largest part of Earth's structure, made of molten (melted) rock.
What is the mantle?
How wet or dry the climate is.
What is precipitation?
Plants growing between rocks and breaking them.
What is biological weathering?
A large, flat, natural elevation of the Earth's surface.
What is a plateau?
What are faults?
The thinnest layer of the planet, where all life exists.
What is the crust?
The condition of the air over a short period of time.
What is weather?
The moving or carrying away of sediments by, water, wind, and ice.
What is erosion?
The low area of land between hills or mountains.
What are valleys?
Magma that comes out of volcanoes and flows for a short time on Earth's surface, before cooling and turning to stone.
What is lava?
The layer of Earth that holds in enough heat from the sun to make life possible.
What is the atmosphere?
Temperature and precipitation.
What are the two factors that describe/affect climate?
What are glaciers?
Sediments deposited at the end of a river that create new land.
What is a delta?
The area surrounding the Pacific Ocean where the majority of Earth's volcanoes and earthquakes happen.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Part of the crust where this layer is the thickest and most separated from the mantle.
What are mountain ranges?