Key Words
A bend in layers of rock
What is a FOLD
The rocky shell forming the Earth's Surface.
What is the CRUST?
A star that is the center of our solar system.
What is the SUN?
Breaking down rocks on the Earth' surface into smaller pieces
What is WEATHERING?
Drives the water cycle.
What is the SUN.
Support life on Earth.
What is a BIOSPHERE?
Thich middle layer of the Earth's interior structure, consisting of dense hot rocks.
What is the MANTEL?
Physical force that keeps the Earth and other objects revolving around the sun.
What is GRAVITY?
The wearing away the Earth's surface by wind, glaciers, and moving water.
What is EROSION?
Freshwater beneath the Earth's surface, that comes from rain and melted snow that filters the soil.
What is GROUNDWATER?
Moisture that falls from the clouds.
What is the PRECIPITATION?
Produce some the Earth's largest landforms.
What is PLATES MOVING?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars have solid, rocky crusts.
What are TERRESTRIAL PLANETS?
Yellow-gray soil deposited by wind.
What is LOESS?
Converting saltwater to freshwater.
What is DESALINATION?
Part of the continent that extends underwater.
What is CONTINENTAL SHELF?
A liquid band of iron and nickel.
What is the OUTER CORE?
A solar object that is a ball of ice and rocks.
What is PLUTO?
Sea plate colliding with a continental plate.
What is SUBDUCTION?
Regular movement of water.
What is the WATER CYCLE?
A break in the EARTH's crust.
What is a FAULT?
Created many of Earth's physical features.
What is PLATE TECTONICS?
30% of the Earth's surface.
What is LAND?
Mountains form by magma that breaks through the Earth's crust.
What are VOLCANOES?
In 2000, ______________was named the 5th ocean.
What is the SOUTHERN OCEAN?