The earth spinning on its axis.
What is rotation?
Rocks made from melted rock that hardens.
What are igneous rocks?
What is the sun's heat or infrared radiation
A tool to measure the temperature.
What is thermometer?
This takes 365 days
What is revolution?
Rocks that are made during heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
Equal amounts of day and night.
What is the equinox?
When water changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
Earth's movement that causes day and night.
What is rotation?
Bits and pieces that have chipped off rocks.
What are sediments?
3 states of matter
What are solid, liquid and gas?
An increase in EQs means this could happen soon.
What is a volcanic eruption?
The difference between weather and climate
What is short term vs long term?
What is new moon?
Weather, wind and water wear away rocks.
What is weathering?
Traces of living things from long ago found in rocks.
What are fossils?
This law states that the oldest rock layers are found at the bottom.
What is the law of superposition?
It was normally sunny in Orlando but a thunderstorm is coming in today.
What is a weather?
This causes seasons on Earth.
What is Earth's tilt and revolution?
The difference between deposition, erosion, and weathering.
What is placement of sediments due to movement, movement of sediment by wind, ice, and water, and breakdown of rocks due to wind, ice, and chemicals?
An event that causes a sudden change on the surface of the earth.
What is a volcano, earthquake, or landslide?
This is where new oceanic floor is found.
What is the mid ocean ridge.