What Earth's made of
Gravel, sand, silt, & clay make up this
What is Soil?
They study of Earth's physical structure.
What is Geology?
This outer layer is made of solid rock
What is the crust?
When a crack forms in the earth crust and magma flows up out of it, this type of mountain is formed.
What is a volcanic mountain?
Large, flat topped hills surrounded by glat land.
What are mesas?
The decayed remains of once-living creatures
What is Humus
The scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and weataher.
What is meteorology?
Starting 1800 miles from the Earth's surface is where this layer of Earth resides.
What is the core?
Along a fault line, when one plate is moving up while the other plate is stationary or moving down, this type of mountain is formed.
What is a fault-block mountain?
When mineral-rich water seeps down through cracks in a cavern roof, the minerals are deposited as the water drips forming these.
What are stalactites?
The 3 basic types of rock are these.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?
The study everything that originates beyond Earth's atmosphere.
What is astronomy?
The continental crust is made of this.
What is granite?
When two rock masses push into each other, the crust buckles into an up and down rolling pattern forming this type of mountain.
What are folded mountains?
Layers of sedimentary rock cemented together by chemical reactions.
What is strata?
We call molten rock this.
What is magma?
The scientific study of the life of the past
What is Paleontology?
Plasma makes up this layer of the Earth.
What is the Mantle?
With the help of ice, water, wind, and temperature changes, the process of the earth's crust being crumbled into bits of minerals or transformed into other materials is called this.
What is weathering?
The theory that every natural process we see today has been operating in the same manner and at the same rate throughout Earth's history.
What is uniformitarianism?
Inorganic crystalline substances found naturally in the Earth.
What are minerals?
The scientific study of the ocean, including its physics, chemistry, biology, and geology.
What is oceanology?
Basalt primarily makes up this part of the crust.
What is the Oceanic Crust?
The process of wearing or grinding something down by wind , water or other natural agents.
What is Erosion?
The theory that one or more catastrophes are the main reason for Earth's geological features.
What is catastrophism?