The Spheres
All the water on the earth, regardless of its phase.
What is the Hydrosphere?
The smaller spheres that make up the Geosphere. (list all of them in order from where you are at now to the center of the Earth.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
In 2002, this canyon in Texas was carved by a Flood in three days when the spillway of Canyon Lake was overwhelmed and the water continued flowing.
What is Canyon Lake Gorge?
The process by which physical forces break down rocks (Also referred to as disaggregation.)
What is physical weathering?
These lines will tell you how close you are to the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
These scientists study vibrations caused by earthquakes, explosions, and other high-energy events.
What are seismologists?
A scientist who follows catastrophism sees a deep canyon with a river flowing at the bottom. What might he see as a reasonable assumption concerning how that canyon was formed?
What are floods?
Leftover salt can build up in pores and push against the rock, weathering it in a process called__________?
What is haloclasty?
This line of longitude runs through Greenwich, England and has a longitude if 0 degrees.
What is the prime meridian?
This soil horizon contains the parent material of soil.
What is the C-Horizon?
When a hypothesis is tested and confirmed by several predictions it might become this.
What is a theory?
The rock is broken down, but the chemicals don't change.
What is physical weathering?