Define This
The study of planet Earth, including its physical structure, its composition, its history, and the processes that act on it.
Geology
Croation scientist Andrija Mohorovicic was the first to make use of this data.
information gathered by seismographs
Any process that breaks down rocks and creates sediment.
Weathering
What it is called when rocks containing iron turn red.
Oxydation
Three types of rocks
Sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic
The sum of all water on a planet is called this.
Hydrosphere
Mohorovicic discontinuity (or Moho for short) describes this.
The boundary between Earth's crust and the beginning of the Earth's mantle.
Two forms of weathering.
mechanical weathering and chemical weathering
Curves created when fast-moving water slams into the far side of a river.
Meanders
Solid, naturally-occurring, inorganic substances that have a definite chemical composition and a crystalline structure.
Minerals
Evaporation of water from plants.
Transpiration
This scientist used data from analyzing seismic waves to hypothesize the boundary between the mantle and the core of Earth.
Beno Gutenberg
The process that moves sediment.
Erosion
Two different land features formed when sediments from rivers are deposited as their flow slows entering larger bodies of water.
alluvial fans and deltas
Two of the four components of granite rock
Quartz, mica, potassium, and plagioclase feldspar
Water falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
Precipitation
This scientist's work with seismic waves led her to realize that the core actually has a solid inner region.
Inge Lehmann
Large boulders dropped by moving or melting glaciers
glacial erratics
Mineral structures found in caves formed by water dripping from the ceiling.
Stalactites and stalagmites
Four of the six properties of minerals
Crystal structure, color, streak, luster, hardness, and fracture/cleavage
Evaporation and condensation of a mixture to separate out the mixture's individual components.
Distillation
The border between the outer core and inner core of the Earth is called this.
The Lehmann discontinuity
The difference between erosion and weathering
Weathering breaks down rocks into sediment, and erosion carries the sediment away.
The Great Lakes are this type of lake formed by chunks of ice left behind by retreating glaciers
kettle lakes
A series of processes in which forces within Earth and at the surface cause rocks to continuously change from one type to another.
The rock cycle