Science Vocab 1
The process of rocks and sediments being deposited
What is deposition?
What is igneous rocks?
The outermost layer of the earth
What is the crust?
The movement of weathered rock from one place to the other
What is erosion?
An event resulting from the shifting of tectonic plates
What is an earthquake?
Rocks formed when other rocks are subjected to heat and pressure
What are metamorphic rocks?
The boundary where two air masses meet
What is a front?
A theory that describes how the continents moved on the surface of Earth to their current position
What is continental drift?
A large body of air with uniform characteristics
What is air mass?
Naturally preserved remains or traces of animal or plant life from the past
What are fossils?
A body of water moving in a direction
What is a current?
Rocks made from fragments of material such as sand, shells, and pebbles
What are sedimentary rocks?
The theory that describes Earth's surface being made of rigid, moving plates
What are plate tectonics?
The last supercontinent on earth
What is Pangaea?
An envelope of gases surrounding Earth
What is the atmosphere?
The third highest layer of the atmosphere
What is the mesosphere?
Waves that carry the energy released from an earthquake
What are seismic waves?
The process of rock decomposition
What is weathering?
The upper part of the mantle and the crust
What is the lithosphere?
The area of energy release inside Earth causing an earthquake
The second highest layer of the atmosphere
What is the stratosphere?
The path of an object around another object
What is the revolution?
A layer of the Earth that lies about 50 miles below the surface
What is the asthenosphere?
A large low-pressure system organized circulation
What is a hurricane?
The lowest later of the Earth's atmosphere
What is the troposphere?