Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
Fossils
Weathering
Misc.
100
a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
100
A break in Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
100
remains or traces of past life.
What is a fossil?
100
The cone and the vent.
What are the parts of a volcano?
100
Beginning with the outermost layer, Earth's layers are the
What are the crust, mantle, and the core?
200
The center of the Earth.
What is the core?
200
Layer of rock beneath Earth's crust.
What is the mantle?
200
Located along the cost of countries that surround the Pacific Ocean and a place where volcanoes are usually located.
What is the ring of fire?
200
Chemical and physical.
What are two types of weathering?
200
arches, tables, and dunes are formed by these two processes.
What is wind erosion and deposition?
300
The process of moving sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
300
An opening in Earth's crust to which to which magma flows.
What is a volcano?
300
One fruit that might be used as a model to explain Earth's internal structure.
What is a peach?
300
Wind and ice are two forms of this type of weathering.
What is physical weathering?
300
Terminal moraines are formed by these two processes.
What is ice erosion and deposition?
400
The super continent.
What is Pangea?
400
Downhill movement of rock and soil.
What is mass movement?
400
A tile floor is a geat model for Earth's _______________.
What is plates?
400
Water and other chemicals contribute to this types of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?
400
_______ erodes rock and deposits sediment to form some of these landforms; deltas, beaches, canyons, sinkholes, and floodplains.
What is ersoion caused by water?
500
The process of droppping or depositing sediment in a new location.
What is deposition?
500
The theory that continents move over Earth's surface.
What is continental drift theory?
500
Shield, cinder cone, and composite.
What is are types of volcanoes?
500
Deposition, weathering, and erosion.
What are processes that change the surface of the Earth?
500
The process of breaking rock into; silt, sand, and other tiny pieces.
What is weathering?
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