Vocab
Deep cracks in the Earth's surface
What are Faults?
The type of rock were fossil are found
What are Sedimentary Rocks
The 4 causes of erosion
What are wind, gravity, water and glaciers
This volcano violently explodes
What is a composite volcano
The three types of weathering
What physical, chemical and biological
The process by which rocks break down
What is Weathering
Granite is a type of this rock
What is igneous
This is created by sediments that are built up at the mouth of a river
What is a delta
melted rock under ground
What is magma?
The higher an object is, the more of this it has.
What is potential energy
The volcanos around the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire
Rocks formed by heat and pressure
What are metamorphic rocks?
The differences between weathering and erosion
What is Weathering breaks it down and erosion carries it away
The steep volcano
What is composite
The number I am think about
What is 32
The theory that the continents move around
What is the theory of continental drift
melted rock above the ground
What is Lava
This is created by wind and deposition
Hawaii is an example of this type of volcano
What is a shield volcano
Causes waves to occur
What are vibrations
A supercontinent
Panagea
The hardest rock
What is a diamond
Gravity erosion causes rocks to:
What is fall
This volcano erupted in Italy 1500 years ago
What is Mt. Vesuvius
How water causes weathering
It freezes and expands causing the rock to break