Tectonic Plates
The process that occurs when one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate
What is subduction?
The Earth system that contains all living things
What is the biosphere?
Earthquakes can occur here
What is a fault?
Resources that are used faster than they can be replaced by natural resources
What are nonrenewable resources?
The material formed from rocks broken down by weathering
What is sediment?
A boundary where two plates move toward each other
What is a convergent boundary?
The layer of gases surrounding Earth
What is the atmosphere?
The vibrations caused by the rupture and sudden movement of rocks along a break or crack in Earth's crust
What is an earthquake?
Resources that can be replaced by natural processes in a relatively short amount of time
What are renewable resources?
The process that changes the composition of rocks
What is chemical weathering?
A boundary where two plates move away from each other
What is a divergent boundary?
The system containing all of Earth's water
What is the hydrosphere?
Magma and lava are different because.......
What is that magma is molten rock beneath the Earth's surface and lava is magma that erupts onto the surface?
Thermal energy from Earth's interior
What is geothermal energy?
The moving of weathered material, or sediment from one location to another.
What is erosion?
A boundary where two plates slide past each other
What is a transform boundary?
The solid part of Earth
What is the geosphere?
What is a volcano?
Energy released from the nucleus of atoms
What is nuclear energy?
The process that breaks down rocks without changing the composition of the rock.
What is physical weathering?
The theory that Earth's surface is broken into large rigid pieces that move with respect to each other.
What is plate tectonics?
A naturally occurring solid composed of minerals and sometimes other materials such as organic matter
What is a rock?
A long, narrow mountain formed by magma at divergent boundaries
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
Energy produced by burning organic matter, such as wood, food scraps, and alcohol
What is biomass energy
The downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil due to gravity.
What is mass wasting?