Let's Break it Down
The process of weathered material being carried away to a new location.
What is erosion?
The process of rocks breaking down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
These resources can be made again after they are used.
What are renewable resources?
Kind of rock that is formed from magma and lava.
What is igneous rock?
Part of a continent that is underwater.
What is a continental shelf?
The process of eroded material settling down into one place.
What is deposition?
The type of soil contains all three soil textures--sand, silt, and clay.
What is loamy soil?
These resources cannot be made again after they are used.
What are nonrenewable resources?
An old volcano with a flat top.
What is a guyot? (gee-oh)
A group of underwater mountains.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
If weathered rock is the same as the rock it came from, this process has happened.
What is physical weathering?
Name the following terms in the order that they happen: erosion, deposition, and weathering
What are weathering, erosion and deposition?
This cannot be something that is alive or was once alive.
What is a mineral?
Underwater volcanoes and the movement of plates under the earth's crust create these.
What are ocean landforms?
A deep hole that is often part of a river that flows into the ocean.
What is an underwater canyon?
If weathered rock is different from the rock it came from, this process has happened.
What is chemical weathering?
Glaciers can form lakes due to this.
What is erosion?
A fossil fuel make from dead plants that lived long ago.
What is coal?
A volcano whose top rises out of the water.
What is a volcanic island?
The flat part of the ocean floor that covers most of the ocean floor.
What is an abyssal plain?
The two processes that wind and water help with.
What are erosion and weathering?
A rounded mound with a low elevation underwater.
What is an abyssal hill?
A fossil fuel that mostly forms above places in earth's crust that have oil.
What is natural gas?
A place where magma comes out of the mantle onto the ocean crust and forms volcanoes and islands.
What is a hot spot?
A very deep, long hole in the ocean floor.
What is a trench?