The Geosphere
This layer of the earth is the outermost layer
What is the crust?
Minerals that form rocks are known as these.
What are rock-forming minerals?
Freezing and thawing is an agent of this type of weathering.
What is mechanical (physical) weathering?
The supercontinent of land where all continents were joined together is known as this.
What is Pangaea?
The zero degree line of latitude
What is the equator?
Periods of geologic time are determine by this.
What are rock formations?
These are the three groups of sedimentary rocks
What are organic, clastic, and chemical?
Forms as bedrock starts to weather
Rock is broken into smaller particles
all describe this soil horizon.
What is C horizon?
Deep-Ocean Trenches are examples of this plate boundary.
What is divergent?
This plate boundary's movement results in an earthquake.
What is a transform boundary?
The inner core is made out of these two elements
What is iron and nickel?
The three main things that geologists observe to learn about rock samples
What are composition, color, and texture?
Horizon B is referred to as.
What is subsoil?
Oceanic crust sinks into the mantle and new crust rises and creates new ocean floor describes this process.
What is subduction?
The order of seismic waves.
What are P Waves, S Waves, and Surface Waves?
Life of living organisms is related to the creation of this geologic time category.
What are eras?
These are the five processes that create a sedimentary rock. (MUST BE IN CORRECT ORDER TO EARN POINTS!)
What are weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?
List four agents of chemical weathering.
What is
WATER
OXYGEN
CARBON DIOXIDE
LIVING ORGANISMS
ACID RAIN
The processes of subduction and sea-floor spreading can change the _______ and _______ of the ocean floor.
What is size and shape?
While making a mental map in your head, which continent would be located at 30 degrees North, 120 degrees West.
What is North America?
The four elements the outer core is made out of (MUST GET ALL FOUR TO EARN POINTS!)
What are Iron, Nickel, Silicone, and oxygen?
This is the process in which a chemical rock is formed.
What is when minerals dissolved in a water solution and crystallize?
Humus is especially rich in.
What is carbon?
These are the two processes that are in constant motion working together on the ocean floor.
What is sea-floor spreading and subduction?
These are all of the continents the Ring of Fire borders (Must name all to receive points)
What is North America, South America, Asia, and Australia/Oceania?