information about Earth's history that is contained in fossils
What is the fossil record?
100
this layer of the Earth forms the continents
What is the crust?
100
the Earth's plates stop moving
What is no new mountains are formed and everything would become flat
100
the breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
200
a mountain that forms where lava flows
What is a volcano?
200
a large moving block of ice
What are glaciers?
200
the pressure on this layer of the Earth is very great
What is the inner core?
200
the ring of fire
What is a place in the Pacific Ocean where volcanos make a ring?
200
two kinds of weathering
What is physical and chemical?
300
the remains of an organism that lived long ago
What is a fossil?
300
formed by wind erosion
What is sand dunes?
300
earthquakes occur here
What is along faults?
300
plates moving forward toward each other result in the edges of one plate being pushed down into the mantle, which causes the upper plate to melt. Magma rises through vents and this is formed...
What is a volcano?
300
the process of moving sediment
What is erosion?
400
the dropping by rivers of soil and rock
What is deposition?
400
causes a tree to become petrified
What is the trees wood is replaced by rock?
400
melted rock is where you would find this Earth layer
What is the mantle?
400
this volcano blows it's top off
What is a composite volcano?
400
the three main layers of the Earth
What is crust, mantle, and core?
500
the process of moving sediment
What is erosion?
500
the movement of sand and sediment forms these
What are deltas and dunes alike?
500
this volcano is steep with slow moving lava
What is a shield volcano?
500
rain soaks into the ground, the rainwater dissovles limestone, water carries away rock and an opening forms, it gets bigger as time passes forming a....