The process by which water returns to the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
Extrusive rocks cool quickly so have ____________(small or large) crystals and Intrusive rocks cool slowly so have __________ (small or large) crystals
What are small and large?
Minerals can not contain this type of matter.
What is a organic matter?
This is rainwater that erodes the land
What is runoff?
The name of the material that settles out of water.
What is sediment?
The crust and upper mantle make up this physical layer of the earth.
What is the lithosphere?
These rocks contain fossils
What is sedimentary rocks
This measures the ground motion or acceleration
What is a seismometer?
What are the two types of Igneous rocks
Extrusive and Intrusive
This happens when an oceanic and continental plate meet at a convergent boundary.
What is subduction?
This type of rock is made of small sea creatures and makes up most of Florida's bedrock.
What is a limestone?
Megathrust earthquakes in Alaska and Indonesia caused damage because of these?
What are tsunamis.
The process by which water falls from the sky.
What is precipitation?
This is a common igneous rock found in New Hampshire.
What is granite?
Volcanoes located at the center of a plate are above this?
What is a hot spot?
Which plate boundary location lies on both a divergent boundary and a hot spot?
What is Iceland?