Plate Tectonics
What is Earth's Inner core made up of?
a dense ball of solid metal
What does it mean for a mineral to be inorganic
it has no materials that were once part of living things
What is an area's topography determined by? List all three
elevation, relief, and landforms
A weather map is an example of a
model
A standard for comparison in an experiment
control
Heat transfer within a fluid takes place by
convection currents
The hardest known mineral
Diamond
A list of a map's symbols
key
What is a destructive force?
A force that slowly wears away mountains and other features on Earth's surface
The amount of space occupied by an object
volume
What is Pangea?
the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago
The softest mineral on the Mohs hardness scale
Talc
What is a hemisphere?
One half the sphere that makes up Earth's surface
Which branch of Earth includes the study of the stars?
astronomy
What is the base metric unit of liquid volume
Liter
A place where two plates slip past each other
transform boundary
The carrying away of rock fragments by water, wind, or ice
erosion
GPS
Global Positioning System
A common tool used by Earth scientists that show magnetic north
Compass
The symbol km is used to describe
Kilometer
Where does a rift valley form at?
Divergent boundary
Small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things
sediment
scale
map feature that relates a distance on a map to a distance on Earth's surface
The ability to do work or cause change
energy
The part of an experiment in which all conditions are kept the same
constant