Weathering
Fossils 1
Volcanoes/Earthquakes
Earth's Crust
Water Cycle
100
The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
100
Remains, imprints, or traces of of naturally preserved organisms.
What is a fossil?
100
This is hot molten rock erupting from a volcano
What is lava?
100
Top layer of the earth
What is the crust?
100
Water in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the earth's surface
What is precipitation?
200
A CHEMICAL reaction in which metal combines with oxygen to form rust
What is oxidation?
200
Empty cavity or space in a rock where plant or animal was buried
What is a mold?
200
This is hot molten rock inside the earth
What is magma?
200
MIddle layer of the earth
What is the mantle?
200
Process by which clouds form as water vapor and changes into liquid water droplets
What is condensation?
300
Breakdown of a rock's minerals by water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and acid rain
What is chemical weathering?
300
Object created from a mold, almost an exact copy.
What is a cast?
300
A break in the ground that happens when the Earth's tectonic plates shift
What is a fault?
300
Center of the earth; has an inner and outer section
What is the core?
300
Water that flows across the land into streams, rivers or oceans
What is runoff?
400
Caused when water in the cracks in rocks freezes and expands
What is ice wedging?
400
Hardened tree sap where preserved insects can be found
What is amber?
400
Layers of the earth's crust that move, float, and sometimes fracture
What is a tectonic plate?
400
Earth's crust is divided into many different tectonic __________.
What is plates?
400
Process by which water on the earth's surface changes from liquid to water vapor
What is evaporation?
500
Breakdown of a rock into smaller pieces by freezing, thawing, plant growth, or actions of animals
What is mechanical weathering?
500
Organism whose tissues are completely replaced by minerals
What is petrified?
500
This scale measures the strength of an earthquake
What is the Richter scale?
500
Theory that the continents are slowly moving apart from each other.
What is continental drift?
500
Evaporation of water from leaves and stems of plants
What is transpiration?
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