Erosion
Wind, water, and ice wear down the Earth.
What is erosion?
Distinctive deep valleys under thre oceans usually near the edges of continents
what are trenches?
Sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks
What are the three classes of rocks?
Measures Earthquakes
What is the Richter scale?
The smallest layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
________ refers to the chemical and mechanical process that breaks down the Earth
What is weathering?
Long underwtaer mountain ranges
what are ridges?
Rocks are a mix of other minerals and minerals and naturally occurring solid materials.
What are rocks and minerals?
Giant waves
What is tsunami?
The hottest layer of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
When a rock is broken by physical forces such as wind or water.
What is mechanical weathering?
Two of the Earth's plates move away from eachother
What are diverging boundarys ?
Warm air and cool air mixing together
What is a tornado ?
The amount of layers that the Earth has.
What is 4?
Gases in the air combined with rain or snow form solutions called acid that wear down the Earth.
What is chemical weathering?
Plates slide sideways past each other
What are transforming boundarys?
Kind of like a tornado but from the water
What is a typhoon?
The state of matter of the inner core.
What is a solid?
Wet soil slides quickly down the hill side and takes all the vegetation with it
What are landslides?
the lithosphere is broken up into large areas
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
Water rising rapidly
What is a flash flood?
Huge rocks deep in the crust.
What are plate tectonics?