Earth's Structure
The crust.
What are moving pieces under the earth’s surface that form the earth’s crust?
Delta
What is the landform that develops when a river deposits sediment as it flows into the ocean?
Hydrologic cycle
What is the process of evaporation, precipitation, condensation, and movement that circulates all water on earth?
Moraine
What is the rocky ridge or hill left behind by a receding glacier?
The hydrosphere.
What is are all the water elements on the earth?
Ring of Fire
What is the zone of seismic activity at plate boundaries at the edges of the Pacific Ocean?
Mountains, hills, valleys, and plateaus.
Strait
What is a narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water?
Weathering
What is the breaking down of rock by physical or chemical processes?
The atmosphere.
What is the layer of gases surrounding the earth?
Lava
What is molten rock that flows out of cracks in the earth's surface?
A mountain.
What is a landform rising above surrounding landforms and measuring more than 2,000 ft.?
Ground water
What is water stored in the pores of rock?
What is organic material that makes up part of soil?
The mantle.
What is a thick layer of molten rock between the core and the lithosphere?
What is used to detect the waves caused by earthquakes?
Drainage basin
What is an area drained by a major river and its tributaries?
Water table
What is the highest point marked by water in saturated rock?
Chemical weathering
What is the force that causes rock to change into a new substance?
Nickel and iron.
What is the core made of?
Richter scale
What is used to rate and compare the intensity of earthquakes?
Steppe
What is a wide, grassy, treeless plain?
Convection
Loess
What is powdery silt carried and deposited by wind?