Erosion
This is the process of breaking apart rocks.
What is weathering?
This is the theory that Earth's crust is divided into plates that are always moving.
What is plate techtonics?
A black film that is perserved is this type of fossil.
What is a carbon film?
This era was from 146 mya to 251 mya.
What is the Mesozoic era?
This planet is closest to size to Earth.
What is Venus?
The moving of sediment from one place to another by natural processes is this.
What is erosion?
When an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, this plate will be pushed down?
What is the oceanic plate?
These are the remains or traces of a living thing.
What are fossils?
The Paleozoic Era is also known as this.
What is the Age of Fishes?
The color of the planet Mars will give you a clue. The Roman god Mars was the god of this.
What is War?
This is when weathered rock is dropped.
What is deposition?
This is the type of boundary where plates are moving away from each other?
What is divergent?
This is a species that has lived so long that it is still alive, but there are also examples of it as a fossil.
What is a living fossil?
These fossils help identify a short period of Earth's history.
What are index fossils?
Once these objects are warmed by the sun, they begin to melt, and a large tail can be seen pointing away from the Sun.
What is a comet?
This is a large river of ice.
What is a glacier?
This is the point in Earth's mantle where an earthquake occurs.
What is the focus?
What is a fossil fuel?
These animals were large flying reptiles, but they weren't dinosaurs
This is the windiest planet in the solar system.
What is Neptune?
This is the area at the mouth of a river where sediment is deposited.
What is a delta?
Explosive eruptions form this type of volcano?
What is a cone volcano?
This is made up of all the fossils in Earth's rock layers.
What is the fossil record?
This animal led scientists to the idea that the techtonic plates used to be in one large mass.
What was the Mesosaurus?
These landforms on Earth are evidence that meteors have struck Earth's surface.
What are impact craters?