Earth's Interior and Other
The speed of an object in a specific direction.
Change of rock form due to heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphism?
Breaking down of rocks by wind, water, or temperature.
What is weathering?
Plates moving apart.
What is divergent?
All the water on Earth: oceans, lakes, rivers, glaciers, groundwater.
What is hydrosphere?
Mass per unit/volume D=M/V
What is density?
One tectonic plate sinks beneath another.
What is subduction?
The movement of sediments by water, wind, or ice.
What is erosion?
Plates moving side by side.
What is transform boundary?
The solid Earth: rocks, soil, mountains, interior layers.
What is geosphere?
A physical phenomenon produced by moving electric charges.
What is magnetism?
What are the types of rock?
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
An element that undergoes radioactive decay.
What is radioactive element?
Plates moving toward each other.
What is convergent?
Frozen water part of the Earth system: glaciers, ice caps, sea ice.
What is cryosphere?
Solid, liquid, gas
What is states of matter?
The movement of heat energy in a fluid due to differences in density.
What is convection?
The vertical distance below Earth’s surface.
What is depth?
An underwater mountain range formed at a divergent boundary.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
The layer of gases surrounding Earth: weather, climate, air composition.
What is atmosphere?
An unstable form of an element that decays over time, releasing radiation.
What is radioisotope?
The process by which a radioactive isotope breaks down into a stable form, emitting energy.
What is decay?
the process by which new oceanic crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges and slowly moves away from the ridge as magma rises from the mantle and solidifies.
What is seafloor spreading?
What evidence supports the theory of sea-floor spreading at mid-ocean ridges?
A) Earthquake zones are only located along continental crust.
B) Rocks near the ridge are older than those farther away.
C) The oceanic crust shows symmetrical magnetic patterns on either side of the ridge.
D) The oldest fossils are found near the mid-ocean ridge.
What is C?
All living organisms on Earth and the environments they inhabit.
What is Biosphere?