Earth's History
Earth's history begins with
What is creation?
Covering of air that surrounds earth
What is the atmosphere?
The 3 main bodies of water
What are lakes, rivers, & oceans?
body of water totally surrounded by land
What is a lake?
2 internal forces of change of earth
What are faults and folding?
The crust of the earth breaks apart?
What is the flood?
solid part of the earth
What is the lithosphere?
four main oceans
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, & Arctic Oceans?
a body of water surrounded by land in part
What is a sea?
huge sections of earth's crust pull apart and/or crush into one another
What is plate tectonics?
changes on earth's surface happened over a long period of time
What is uniformitarianism?
Water that covers over 3/4 of earth's surface
What is the hydrosphere?
waters that feed into a major river
What are tributaries?
areas of stagnant water
What are wetlands?
Strike-slip and normal
What is faulting?
Changes occur in an animal species to the point a new species occurs
What is speciation?
The four layers of the earth in order from the outside to the inside
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, & inner core?
longest river in the US
What ist the Missouri River?
sheltered body of deep water next to shore
What is a harbor?
External forces on the earth's surface
What is weathering and erosion?
A sudden occurance; sudden event
What is a cataclysm?
Mountains, plateaus, & plains
What are landforms?
the longest river in the world
What is the Nile River
kinds of wetlands
What are a bog, marsh, & swamp?
Glaciers, running water, wave motion, & wind
What is erosion?