Weathering
The layer of Earth affected by weathering
What is the CRUST?
The removal of weathered rock.
What is erosion?
Rocks formed from layers of small particles.
What are SEDIMENTARY ROCKS?
Large sections of Earth's crust and upper mantle that slowly move.
What are PLATES? or What are LITHOSPHERIC PLATES?
The source of energy that drives the water cycle.
What is the SUN?
Earth's spheres that interact as waves crash onto the shore.
What are the hydrosphere and the geosphere?
The force that moves material downhill in a landslide.
What is GRAVITY?
Rocks formed from the solidification of molten rock.
What are IGNEOUS ROCKS?
The type of plate boundary where island arcs form.
What is a CONVERGENT BOUNDARY?
The hottest layer of Earth's geosphere.
What is the CORE?
or What is the INNER CORE?
The type of weathering that breaks rocks into smaller pieces.
What is PHYSICAL WEATHERING?
The dominant agent of erosion in deserts.
What is WIND?
Rocks formed from heat and pressure applied to previously existing rock.
What are METAMORPHIC ROCKS?
The motion within Earh's mantle that conveys heat and moves continents.
What is convection?
The process that transfers heat from the core to the mantle.
What is CONDUCTION?
A reaction that changes the material a rocks is made of.
What is CHEMICAL WEATHERING?
Large "rivers" of ice that weather, erode, and deposit all sizes of rock fragments.
What are GLACIERS?
The only type of rock that contains fossils.
What is SEDIMENTARY?
When one tectonic plate sinks beneath another.
What is SUBDUCTION?
How energy gets from the sun to Earth through space.
What is RADIATION?
Broken, moved and deposited rock.
What is SEDIMENT?
Water seeping into cracks, then freezing and expanding to break down rocks.
What is ice wedging?
Newly formed oceanic or continental crust.
What is IGNEOUS?
A formation created at divergent plate boundaries.
What is a
MID-OCEAN RIDGE
MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
RIFT VALLEY
What is RADIOACTIVE DECAY?