The Rock Cycle
What is erosion?
The wearing away of rocks.
What is the process by which water changes from liquid to gas?
evaporation
The name of the theory is that the Earth's crust is divided into several large pieces that move and interact.
Plate tectonics
The outermost solid layer of the Earth is composed of both continental and oceanic types.
The crust
Which layer of the Atmosphere contains the ozone layer?
The Stratosphere
The rock cycle process
A process that transforms one rock type into another is driven by Earth's internal heat along with surface processes such as weathering, erosion, and deposition.
What is the part of the water cycle where water flows over the land surface?
runoff
This type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move away from each other.
Divergent Boundary
What is the mantle?
It's the layer of the Earth located directly below the Crust, made of hot, dense, and silicated rock.
The layer on the outermost layer of the atmosphere.
The Exosphere
How are sedimentary rocks formed?
Sedimentary rocks are formed from deposits of pre-existing rocks or pieces of once-living organisms that accumulate on the Earth's surface
The continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the earth.
The Water Cycle
This geological feature is formed when one tectonic plate slides past beneath another.
subduction zone
This part of the earth is made of iron and nickel.
The Core
The most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
Nitrogen
What type of rock forms from the cooling and solidification of magma or lava?
Igneous Rock
The water that is stored beneath the Earth's surface in soil and rock formations.
Groundwater
This is the process by which new oceanic crust is formed at the mid-ocean ridges and gradually moves away from them.
Seafloor Spreading
This layer is broken into tectonic plates that move around on the asthenosphere.
The lithosphere
What is the percentage of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere?
approximately 21%
What role does plate tectonics have on the rock cycle?
Plate tectonics are essential to the rock cycle, by driving the formation, transformation, and recycling of rocks through various geological processes at plate boundaries.
The condition where the amount of water vapor in the air is at its maximum at a specific temperature.
Saturation
The name of the supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago, comprising all the landmasses of the Earth.
Pangaea
These are the two types of crust.
Oceanic and Continental crust
The greenhouse gas that is produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
Carbon Dioxide