Layers of the Earth
What is geology?
The study of planet earth, including its composition and structure.
Define a mineral
A natural inorganic solid (no carbon atoms) with a crystal like structure and distant chemical characteristics.
What is a volcano?
A mountain through which lava rock and gas are erupt from the the earths crust.
What is the water cycle?
The circular process of water molecules across the earths surface and atmosphere via evaporation, transportation, condensation, propitiation, and percolation.
What is weathering?
The wearing away or change the appearance or texture overtime.
What is Earths core?
The metal center of the earth
Whats a sedimentary rock?
A rock formed over time as sediment gets squeezed together via erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation.
What does divergent boundaries mean?
plates move away
Define evaporation
solar energy heats and changes water form liquid t gas vapor
Define erosion
Specifically the weathering of rock and soil into sediment by exposure to wind and water
What is the most abundant chemical in Earths atomosphere?
Nitrogen
Whats the rock cycle?
A rocks continually changing from one type to the next.
A shifting movement in the lithospheres tectonic plates that releases energy.
Define transipiration
Liquid water that evaporates into gas vapor from plant leaves
Which cloud is puffy and white?
Cumulus clouds
Whats the symbol for oxygen?
Xe
Whats are the 6 characteristics of minerals?
Crystal structure, Density, Color, Hardness, Luster, Fracture.
Whats fault?
The line between two colliding plates
Heavy water droplets in clouds that fall to the ground
How much precipitation does a dry climate have?
very little
What is the Mesosphere?
The thinnest layer of air where meteors burn up
What are the 3 categories of rock?
Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
Whats the charcteristics of a cider volcano?
Regularly throw put ash and build up flatter dome called cider cones.
Which water cycle step froms water droplets?
condensation
Whats the characteristics of tropical weather?
Hot with lots of precipitation