Seasons
Time of the year where there is equal day and equal night
Equinox
It takes about how many days for the moon to revolve around the Earth
28 days
Earth's process of changing one type of rock into another type of rock
Rock Cycle
When material is removed
erosion
The scientist who hypothesized that continents had once been a part of a single land mass, and that the continents had slowly drifted apart
Alfred Wegener
When do the solstices happen?
December and June
Visible light is increasing
Waxing
Type of rock that forms from melted rock
Igneous
When rock is broken down
weathering
Plates that divide apart from each other
Divergent
Where the sunlight is concentrated during an equinox
Equator
One fourth of the way through the lunar cycle
First quarter
Fossils are in this type of rock
Sedimenatry
Mountain ranges are formed over hundreds of millions of years through this process
Uplift
The Himalayan mountain and Mt.Everest can be found at this plate boundary
Convergent
We have seasons because of this
Earth's tilt on its axis which allows a different amount of sunlight on different parts of the earth as it revolves around the sun
Phase that comes after the new moon
Waxing crescent
Rock made from heat and pressure
Metamorphic
The natural processes that happen now have always happened and will continue to happen
Uniformitarianism
This process occurred when the large land masses moved, like when Pangaea broke apart
Continental drift
During summer in the northern hemisphere, where is the sun concentrated
Tropic of Cancer
Shape of the light that is about a 75% visible
Gibbous
Small holes or big pores is a characteristic of this type of rock
Igneous
This is formed when weathering is faster on the softer rock underneath; it forms this type of unusual rock formation
Hoodoo
The San Andres fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of boundary is it?
Transform