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Water Cycle
Rock Cycle
Earths Structure & Process
Atmosphere
Weathering
100
Conversion of water into water vapor
What is evaporation?
100
The interaction of processes that changes rock from one type to another
What is rock cycle?
100
The thinnest and outermost layer of the earth
What is crust?
100
Air above sea level were people live
What is atmosphere?
100
Loosened material that can be eroded
What is weathering?
200
Movement of water into soil
What is infiltration?
200
Shale, sandstone, and limestone are examples of...
What is sedimentary rocks?
200
The think solid zone around earths core
What is mantle?
200
Thinnest layer of the atmosphere where climate takes place
What is troposphere?
200
mechanical breakdown of rocks and minerals by water, wind, and variations in temperature
What is physical weathering?
300
Down slope surface movement back to the sea to resume the cycle
What is runoff?
300
Slate,marble, and quartzite are examples of...
What is metamorphic rock?
300
Large volumes of heated rock move, following a pattern resembling convection in the atmosphere
What is convection cells?
300
Location of the ozone that filters UV radiation
What is stratosphere?
300
When one ore more chemical reaction decomposes a mass of rock
What is chemical weathering?
400
Downward flow of water through soil and permeable rock formation to groundwater storage areas known as aquifers
What is percolation?
400
Also referred to as molten rock
What is magma?
400
A boundary where two plates push together and are known to cause a subduction zone
What is convergent plate boundaries?
400
Can cause sunburn, skin and eye cancer, cataracts, and damage to the immune system
What is ultraviolet radiation?
400
Weathering caused by living organisms
What is biological weathering?
500
Land water that supplies water to a river systme
What is watershed
500
Solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil
What is bedrock?
500
Flow of energy and heated material in the mantle convection cells that cause rigid plate movements
What is tectonic plates?
500
Presence of one or more chemicals in the atmosphere in sufficient quantities
What is air pollution?
500
Rocks that react differently to weathering due mineral content and structure, are factors that affect chemical weathering
What is mineral composition?