Earth
Three layers of the Earth
What are the crust, mantle, and core?
Two plates colliding with each other is this type of boundary
What is convergent?
A group of streams that contribute water to another stream
What is a tributary system?
Terrace field, retaining wall, and drainage channel are ways to do what
What is develop on a slope?
Steam produced when lava meets the ocean is composed of what chemical
What is hydrochloric acid?
Two layers of crust
What is Oceanic and Continental?
Mass and Volume are two factors of
What is density?
Water always flows in this direction
What is downhill?
Rockfall, landslide, and avalanches are examples of
What is mass movement?
Invisible line running around the center of the earth
What is the equator?
Hottest layer of the Earth
What is the inner core?
Heating of air in a hot air balloon increases this
What is volume?
Dendrite, Radial, and Trellis are all patters of
What are drainage basins?
The process by which sediments compact into solid rock
What is litification?
Ocean to ocean or ocean to continent produces these types of boundaries
What is convergent?
Sphere that contains the mantle and crust
What is the asthenosphere?
These are always moving
What are plate boundaries?
The largest river system in the US
What is the Mississippi River?
An angle of 30-35 degrees, that's slope is affected by the shape of material but not the size is called
What is the angle of repose?
What is Chile?
The theory of movement of the Earth's lithosphere
What is plate tectonics?
When one plate slides under another
What is subduction?
Watersheds have a final destination that is usually where
What is the ocean?
What is erosion?
Large mass of igneous rock that forms when magma emerges and solidifies
What is a batholith?
What is a trench?
What is transform?
A major river fed by a small number of fairly large tributaries is what type of system
What is trunk?
This happens when sediment is piled past the angle of repose
What is collapses?
Area where two continents have collided and been welded together
What is a suture zone?
Places in the ocean floor that emit hot mineral-rich water are called
What is hydrothermal vent?
The San Andres Fault is an example of what type of boundary
What is transform?
Mountains that serve as boundaries between drainage basins are called
What are drainage divides?
Drinking water, irrigation, transportation, and power are examples of ways humans use
What are river systems?
Mud is an example of
What is a sediment?