vocabulary
the process that moves the surface of the earth upwards
What is uplift?
Three major types of landforms
What mountains, plateaus, and plains
The substance that makes up rocks
What are minerals
The name of the outer layer of the earth
What is crust
Density decreases when temperature...
What is increases
the wearing away of soil and rock and washing it away through water or wind.
What is erosion?
What landform does uplift create?
What is mountains
The way physical properties of minerals are tested (4 ways)
What is hardness, color, streak, luster, density (gravity)
How scientists map the layers of the earth
What are seismic waves?
Density increases when pressure...
What is increases
naturally occurring, generally inorganic solid with a crystal structure.
What is a mineral?
The landform produced when the earth's internal heat energy melts rocks and this melted rock moves to the surface
What is a volcano
How igneous rocks are formed
What is formed by cooling magma
The thick middle layer of the earth
What is the mantle
Two reasons why convection heat release is important for the Earth
Earth's magnetic field and plate tectonics
The amount of matter an object has per unit of volume.
What is density?
Glaciers carve this shape valley as they moved across Yosemite's National Park.
What is U-shaped
How metamorphic rocks are formed
What is when solid rocks are squeezed and heated into a new rocks (must stay solid)
The dense metallic center of the Earth
What is the core
The way internal and external forces produce surface landforms
what is uplift and erosion
The plastic but still mostly solid layer of the mantle
What is the asthenosphere
A temporary feature that must have sediment constantly added to it in order to exist.
What is a beach
How sedimentary rocks are formed.
What are rocks broken down by erosion then compressed by the weight of material above them?
The two factors that affect density
What are temperature and pressure
The two types of Earth's crust
What are oceanic and continental