Vocabulary 1
Observable events that occur in a natural or designed system.
Phenomena
What is the name of the process where rock is broken down in place?
Weathering
The transfer of energy between objects that are touching; causes energy to move from the warmer object to the cooers object.
Conduction
What process forms mountain ranges?
Uplift
The transfer of energy caused by the circulation of matter due to difference in density.
Convection
Earth's hot, middle rock layer, located between the crust and the core.
Mantle
Where on the spatial scale would an asteroid impact be?
Global
Earth's thin, cool, and rigid outermost rock layer.
Crust
What 2 processes form a Hoodoo?
Weathering and Erosion
Earth's hot, dense, innermost rock layer, located below the mantle.
Core
A property of matter that is equal to the amount of mass in a certain volume of matter.
Density
What is the difference between Magma and Lava?
Lava is found above ground, while magma is found below ground.
The transfer of energy as light through space or transparent objects.
Radiation
Where on the time scale would a pond filling with sediment fall?
Years
The upward movement of large areas of Earth's crust caused by forces deep beneath the surface.
Uplift
The idea that any natural processes we cqn observe today happened in the same way in the past and will also happen in the same way in the future.
Uniformitarianism
Where on the time and spatial scale would you expect to find weathering caused by an ant moving a piece of sediment?
Microscopic, Seconds
What process are Hoodoos evidence for?
Uniformitarianism
Where on the time and spatial scale would you expect to find Sandbar (a ridge of sand, gravel, or sediment underwater that forms in a body of water like an ocean, sea, lake, or river.) formation?
Regional, years/centuries
The transfer of energy where matter and energy move from one organism to another.
Food Chain
The physical or chemical breakdown of rock on Earth's surface.
Weathering
Where on the time and spatial scale would you expect to find Hoodoos?
Regional, Thousands/Millions of Years
The removal of rock material by wind, water, ice, or gravity.
Erosion
Sunset Crater, located in Central Arizona, is a cinder cone volcanic mountain, what could have caused the formation of this mountain?
A series of volcanic eruptions.
The accumulation of eroded rock material transported from another location.
Deposition