Volcanoes
Hot, molten rock that is found under the surface of the Earth
What is Magma
A loose mix of weathered rock, organic matter, air ,and water.
What is soil?
The layer of gases surrounding the Earth.
What is Atmosphere?
A force that happens not in the Earth's Lithosphere.
What is External Force?
A giant, ocean wave that begins at the epicenter of an Earthquake.
What is a Tsunami?
Magma that has reached the Earth's surface, and can create a landform.
What is Lava?
Changing of the landforms by slowly moving glaciers.
What is Glaciation?
It protects the Earth from radiation, space debris.
What is Atmosphere?
Processes that break rock into smaller pieces, does not change the composition.
What is Mechanical Weathering?
Location in the Earth where an Earthquake begins.
What is the Focus?
This occurs when lava, gases, ash, and dust explode from vents in the Earth's crust.
What is an Eruption?
River deposits sediment at ocean, it creates a fan-like landform.
What is a Delta?
The solid rock portion of the Earth's surface, it forms the ocean floor.
What is Lithosphere?
The interaction of elements that create new substances.
What is Chemical Weathering?
The point directly above focus on the Earth's surface.
What is the Epicenter?
This is where magma rises to the surface.
What is a Hot Spot?
Wind-blown silt and clay sediment, produces fertile soil.
What is a loess?
Water elements on Earth including atmospheric water.
What is the hydrosphere?
This is made by mud, sand, silt created by weathering processes.
What is Sediment?
A numeric scale showing relative strength of an Earthquake.
What is Richter Scale?
This is the meeting point of eight tectonic plates, and most of the world's volcanoes are found here.
What is the Ring of Fire?
A hill or ridge formed by rocks deposited by glaciers.
What is a Moraine?
Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere combined.
What is the Biosphere?
This happens when weathered material moves by wind, water, ice, or gravity.
What is Erosion?
This detects Earthquakes and measures the waves that they create.
What is a Seismograph?