What's It Mean?
The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
A fast changed caused by sudden shaking of the ground is _________________________.
What is an earthquake?
Type of weathering that breaks rocks without changing them their composition.
What is physical weathering?
A crack in the earth's crust
What is fault?
Mountains and other surface features of the land.
What are landforms?
A slow change where broken down materials are deposited in a new place is called _____________.
What is deposition?
Type of weathering caused by acid rain.
What is chemical weathering?
The rising and falling of magma in the mantle.
What is a convection currents?
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
The sudden movement of rocks and soil down the side of a hill because of gravity and rain.
What is a landslide?
Name a difference between weathering and erosion.
What is weathering makes things smaller, and erosion moves it?
A volcano that has not erupted for a long time, but may erupt again one day.
What is dormant volcano?
Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land.
What are glaciers?
Water can weather rock by: A. eroding soil B. by freezing and melting
What is freezing and melting?
Small pieces that break off of rocks
What is sediment?
a scientist who studies the earth
What is geologist?