Earth's Systems
This Earth system includes plants, animals, humans, and all living organisms.
What is the Biosphere
These substances make up rocks and are found in Earth’s crust.
What is a mineral?
This rock forms deep within Earth without completely melting.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
This rock forms deep underground without completely melting.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
This is what occurs when magma cools and hardens into rock?
What is cooling and crystallization
This Earth system is made up of the gases surrounding Earth?
What is the Atmosphere
These are part of the geosphere and can be igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic.
What is a rock?
This hot liquid rock can cool to form igneous rock.
What is Magma?
This process exposes buried rocks and is caused by forces inside Earth.
What is uplift?
This is the process which happens when sediments are dropped in a new location?
What is deposition?
This system includes oceans, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and water vapor.
What is the Hydrosphere
This Earth process changes rocks into different forms over time.
What is Rock Cycle Interaction?
This Earth system includes rocks, soil, mountains, and Earth’s crust.
What is the Geosphere?
This cycle includes melting, cooling, weathering, erosion, heat, and pressure.
What is the Rock Cycle?
These are agents of erosion that can move sediment from one place to another.
What can wind, water and glaciers impact have?
This is water found underground in spaces within soil and rock.
What is Groundwater
This rock forms from cooling magma or lava.
What is Igneous Rock?
Wind, water, and ice help carry sediments from one place to another.
What is weathering and Erosion?
These interactions help shape Earth’s surface and climate.
What are Interactions Among Earth Systems?
Sediments are pressed together and glued into rock
What happens during compaction and cementation?
This system contains the solid parts of Earth.
What is the Geosphere?
This rock often forms in layers from compacted sediment.
What is sedimentary rock?
This process constantly recycles rocks into new forms over millions of years.
What is Earth's Surface Changes?
This process exposes buried rocks and is caused by forces inside Earth.
What is uplift?
High Temperatures and Pressure
What two conditions are mainly responsible for forming metamorphic rocks?