Volcanoes
A sleeping volcano is called this.
What is dormant?
The loose, weathered material on Earth's surface in which plants grow.
What is soil?
A band of high-speed winds about 6 to 14km above Earth's surface
What is Jet Stream
Is a break in the rock of Earth's crust or mantle.
What is a fault?
This is a round object that orbits the sun and has a cleared out the region of the solar system along its orbit.
What is a planet?
A molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle.
Gravity causes this. It is one of several processes that move sediment downhill. It can be rapid or slow. One example of this is creep.
What is mass movement?
The boundary where the masses meet become a
What is Front
Plates move apart, or diverge, from each other at a_________
What is divergent boundary
Chunks of rock or dust smaller than asteroids are called.
What is are meteoroids/meteors?
An area where lava frequently erupts at the surface, independent of plate boundary processes. The Hawaiian islands are an example of this.
What are hot spots?
These are found in deserts. They are caused when wind meets an obstacle, such as a clump of grass, the result is usually a large deposit of windblown sand.
What are sand dunes?
This non-moving front is called a ______________.
Stationary Front
The force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume is called___________
What is stress
What are comets?
At this type of plate boundary, tectonic plates move closer together and volcanoes often form.
What are convergent boundaries?
What is deposition?
A swirling center of low air pressure can form a
What is cyclone
Occurs when rock is being pushed in two opposite directions in a sideways movement
What is shearing
Scientists frequently use a unit called the ___________ to measure distances between objects in the solar system.
What are astronomical units?
This very famous and large national park in the Northwest United States contains a caldera volcano.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
Water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, living organisms, and acid rain cause this. It can dissolve rock. Rusting is a form of it.
Is the opposite of a cyclone
What is anticyclone
Undersea valleys that are deepest parts of the ocean. Two famous examples are the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Mariana Trench.
What are deep ocean trenches?
These are areas of plasma on the sun that are cooler than the plasma around them.
What are sun spots?