Earth's Layers/Plates
The outermost solid layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
A violent spinning column of air touching the ground.
What is a tornado?
A scientist who studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The highest point of a wave.
What is a crest?
The layer beneath the crust where plates move.
What is the asthenosphere?
A large storm that forms over warm ocean water.
What is a hurricane?
A fossil that shows activity like footprints or burrows.
What is a trace fossil?
Water stored underground.
What is groundwater?
The height of a wave from rest position to crest.
What is amplitude?
The rigid outer layer made of the crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
A giant ocean wave usually caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
The law that states lower rock layers are older than layers above.
What is superposition?
The ability of soil to let water pass through.
What is permeability?
The number of waves passing a point in a given time.
What is frequency?
The process where one tectonic plate moves under another.
What is subduction?
A sudden shaking of Earth’s surface.
What is an earthquake?
A fossil used to determine the age of rock layers.
What is an index fossil?
A layer of soil with different characteristics. It contains Hummus
What is a horizon?
A wave that does not need a medium to travel.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
The hottest, innermost layer of Earth.
What is the inner core?
An instrument used to measure air pressure to help predict storms.
What is a barometer?
The exact age of a rock or fossil in years.
What is absolute age?
The underground layer that holds water.
What is an aquifer?
The squeezing together of particles in a wave.
What is compression?