Layers
What is the outer layer of the Earth called?
Crust
What are the three major LANDforms?
mountain, plain, plateau
wind is strongest in dry areas?
Yes
Did the Earth recover quickly after the flood?
No
Bauxite is the ore from which what element is made from?
aluminium
What is the layer under the crust called?
Mantle
What is it called: "The idea that forces that shaped the earth as we see it now operated in the past at the same rate as today."
Uniformitarianism.
Most powerful form of erosion?
The 4 features used to compare river systems are: hint: Page 32
discharge, navigability, length, and drainage area.
More than 2/3 of water is in polar and underground?
true
What is the inner layer?
core
Deep cracks are called: An example is the Sierra Nevada rangeShifting plates are called:
faults
What is the process of breaking rocks into soil?
weathering
What is the Creation mandate?
Genesis 1:28
Is sulfur found in gunpowder?
Yes
What are the 4 physical systems divided on the planet: Hint one is atmosphere.
atmosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere.
Fjords are created by:
glaciation
The process is called _________ where thin ocean crust goes below a more massive continental crust.
subduction
Rivers that feeed other rivers are called:
Tributaries
large cash coming in for profit on crops is called c__________ farming
commercial
Molten rock in the Earth is called?
magma
Shifting plates are called what and cause what?
plate tectoncis - faulting and folding
What was the supercontient called?
Pangaea
Contients floating apart after the flood are called:
continental drift
Two main branches of agriculture are?
farming and animal husbandry