Plate Motion
Earth's outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water.
What is Earth's Crust
Anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter
A group of atoms joined together in a particular way
What is a molecule
The tiny pieces that all mater is made of
What is an atom?
Related to life or caused by living things
What is biotic factor
A sudden shaking of Earth's surface
What is an earthquake
Hot liquid rock below the surface of the Earth
What is magma?
Liquid to a gas phase
What is evaporation
A process in which atoms rearrange to form something new
What is a chemical reaction
Not related to life or caused by nonliving things
What is abiotic factor?
When two plates move away from each other.
What is divergent
The movement of sediment from one place to another, often caused by wind or flowing water.
What is erosion
When matter changes from one state to another
An ending substance that is made during a chemical reaction
What is a product?
They produce their own energy by photosynthesis
What is a producer?
What is the mantle
The rock type formed when magma cools and becomes solid
What is igneous rock
The energy that an object has because it is moving
Starting substance that is part of a chemical reaction
What is a reactant?
A population that eats organisms from another population
What is a consumer?
The place where two plates meet
What is a plate boundary
The rock type formed when sediment is compacted and cemented together
What is sedimentary rock
The way molecules in a substance move around relative to each other
What is freedom of movement
Something that is made of all the same atoms or group of atoms
What is a substance?
A molecule that organisms can use to release the energy they need to survive
What is an energy storage molecule