Rocks
Plate Techtonics
Weathering
Erosion
Mystery ???
100
A rock's mineral composition, color and texture.
What is what do geologists observ when studying a rock sample?
100
results from a force pressing on an area
What is pressure
100
Process where sediment is layed down in new locations
What is deposition?
100
Crust, Mantle, and Core
What is the 3 layers of Earth?
200
Igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, and metamorphic rock
What is three major groups of rocks?
200
The process that breaks down rock through chemical changes such as the action of water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, living organisms, and acid rain.
What is chemical weathering?
200
The grinding away of rock by rock particles carried by water, ice, wind, or gravity.
What is abrasion?
200
The most important factors that determine the rate at which weathering occurs.
What is type of rock and the climate?
300
A naturally occurring inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
300
a layer of solid rock that include both dry land and ocean floor
What is the Crust?
300
The process of breaking down rocks due to organisms such as tree root growth, burrowing animals, or lichens.
What is biological weathering?
300
A mixture of rock particles, minerals, decayed organic material, water, and air.
What is soil?
400
a series of processes on Earth's surface and in the crust and mantle that slowly change rocks from one kind to another.
What is the rock cycle?
400
The place where two plates come together.
What is a convergent boundary?
400
the major agent of the erosion that shapes land surface
What is moving water?
500
The number of properties used to identify minerals
What is 8
500
Radiation, conduction, and convection
What is three types of heat transfer?
500
Rock that is physically broken into smaller pieces?
What is mechanical weathering?
500
Erosion works with these two acts in a cycle to wear down and build up earth's surface
What is weathering and deposition
500
Where the edges of Earth's plates meet.
What is plate boundaries?
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