Layers of the Earth
The innermost layer of the earth
What is the Core
Process in which rocks and other materials are disintegrated through physical, chemical and biological forces.
What is weathering?
The two types of tectonic plates?
What is oceanic and continental plates?
Free Points
Free Points
A reversible process of transformation.
What is Physical transfromation?
The outermost layer of the earth
What is the Crust?
The removal of surface material, mainly soil and rock
What is erosion?
The three types of tectonic plate movements (boundaries).
What are convergent, divergent and transformative boundries?
The aqueous elements that wrap the earth, including bodies of water.
What is the hydrosphere?
Box that allows the user to interpret the symbols of the map.
What is the map key?
The two types of crust
what is the oceanic and continental crust?
Process that comprises volcanic eruptions, geysers, and fumaroles.
What is volcanism?
Theory about the compatibility and movement of continental masses across the globe.
What is continental drift?
The mass of gases that surround the planet.
What is the Atmosphere?
The line that divides the world in north and south hemispheres?
What is the Equator?
The two sections in which the mantle is divided
What is the upper and lower mantle?
Process of transformation generated in the interior of the crust.
What is endogenous transformation?
Fault located between the pacific and north american plate
What is the San Andreas Fault?
The parts of the earth in which life can exist.
What is the Biosphere?
The other name for the Prime Meridian
What is the Greenwich meridian?
The two sections in which the core is divided
What is the inner and outer core?
Process of transformation generated outside the crust of the earth.
What is exogenous process of transformation?
Ancient megacontinent.
What is Pangea?
The outer part of solid earth compossed essentially by rock.
What is the Lithosphere?
Scale that measure the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?