Weathering
I am the part of a plant that breaks apart rock or pavement.
What are roots?
The process of moving sediment from one place to another
What is erosion?
A place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
The thin outer layer of Earth, including dry land and the ocean floor.
What is the crust?
What is plate tectonics?
The process of breaking apart rock
What is weathering?
the dropping or settling of eroded materials.
What is deposition?
Molten rock that erupts from a volcano along with ash and hot gases.
What is lava?
The layer of Earth extending from Earth's center to the bottom of the mantle.
What is the core?
The shaking of Earth's surface that can cause land to rise and fall.
What is an earthquake?
I can dig up rocks or trample the Earth to expose rocks.
What are animals or living things?
Sand, bits of rock, fossils, and other matter carried and deposited by water, wind, or ice.
What is sediment?
This is the zone of over 450 active volcanoes that line the rim of the Pacific plate.
What is the Ring of Fire?
The thick layer of Earth beneath the crust.
What is the mantle?
The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
I widen and expand cracks by freezing many times and pushing through cracks until a rock breaks apart.
What is water?
I am a landform created by wind carrying particles of sediment from one place to another.
What is a sand dune?
When nonexplosive lava flows and broad sheets of lava steadily build up forming a wide, low shape.
What is a shield volcano?
This layer of the Earth is made of mostly these two types of elements.
What is solid iron and nickel?
A break in Earth's crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side.
What is a fault?
I can cause a reaction by going through a chemical change and wear away rocks and statues.
What is a chemical reaction or chemical weathering?
This is dropped-off sediment, such as large rocks, forms different land features such as hills.
What are moraines?
Alternating types of volcanoes with explosive eruptions producing steeper slopes and liquid lava flows cementing the fragments in place form this type of volcano.
What is a composite volcano?
The crust makes up ____% of Earth's mass.
What is 1%
I am the device that measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale from 1-10.
What is the Richter scale?