Vocab
A river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake.
What is a tributary?
A slow winding river.
What is a meandering river?
The hardest type of rock from either shale or granite.
What is granite?
Melted rock whens cools and hardens turns into this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
The era with the most periods.
What is Paleozoic?
A solid in which the atoms are arranged in patterns.
What is a crystal?
The equation m/s or meters over seconds represents this .
What is river speed?
The process that puts a honeycomb pattern on rocks.
What is salt weathering?
Heat and pressure make this type of rock.
What is Metamorphic?
The era with the least amount of periods.
What is Precambrian?
The tendency to break along flat surfaces.
What is cleavage?
The making of erosion faster through the use of more water.
What is Floods?
The type of rock that dissolving works on.
What is limestone.
The type of rock where sediments are crushed together.
What is sedimentary?
The period we are in today.
What is Quaternary period?
The amount of mass over the amount of volume.
What is density?
The amount of water a river puts out.
What is discharge?
The rock that clay formation does not effect.
What is limestone?
The processes that break down rocks.
What is weathering and erosion?
The order of the 4 eras from today to the beginning of earth.
What is Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Precambrian?
The process of splitting rocks into thin sheets.
What is foliation?
The thing making erosion go slower.
What is vegetation?
The temperature when cold does this process.
What is frost wedging?
The two processes that happen to sediments to turn them into sedimentary rock.
What is lithification and compaction?
Daily Double:
The order of the first 5 periods from earth forming to today.
What is Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian?