Erosion
The process of wearing down earth's surface.
What is erosion or weathering?
The process that would allow new land to form from magma.
What is cooling?
A map that would show you the elevations of the land.
What is a topographical map?
The result of two plates rubbing together that can be felt along fault lines.
What is an earthquake?
An example of a mined material.
Answers will vary- plastic, metals, rock, oil, etc
The name of the material that has been eroded (What is left behind by erosion?)
What is sediment?
This would happen to the plates that go under another plate.
What is melting?
A visual that would show you what the land would look like from the side.
What is a topographical profile?
The name for a boundary where the two plates are pulling apart and will form new land as the magma cools.
What is a divergent boundary?
The plate that we are currently living on.
What is the North American plate?
The name for the dropping off of eroded sediment somewhere else.
What is deposition?
The names of the three types of rock.
Two terms for mass movements of rock and soil.
What are mudflows and landslides
The type of boundary that will cause mountains to form.
What is a convergent boundary?
The term for when 3 or more continents come together.
What is a supercontinent?
An example of mechanical weathering.
Answers will vary - Freezing, thawing, release of pressure, plant growth, animals, abrasions by water, ice, wind or gravity.
The process that would change a sedimentary rock into sediment.
What is weathering?
The type of movement where you can see changes in the surrounding such as slanted telephone poles, gravestones, or fence posts.
What is a creep?
What is gravity and convection?
This sinks in convection.
What is cool rock?
The name of the other type of weathering that is not mechanical weathering and an example of what could cause it.
What is chemical weathering?
Acid rain, break down from water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, living organisms.
This would change igneous rock into metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
The process that would lead to mass movement.
What is erosion?
The name for a plate moving beneath another plate.
What is subduction?
This mountain range is not near a fault line because the plates have moved away from each other.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?