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Earth's Layers
Measuring and Conversions
Earth Science Sciences
Latitude/Longitude
Time Zones
100
What layer is considered to be the deepest within the Earth
What is the Inner Core
100
The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Loosens and transports sediment by gravity, wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
100
The 2 types of glaciers.
What are Continental and Alpine?
100
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart.
What is pangaea?
200
We are considered to be living on what layer
What is the crust
200
___________ and ___________ are common forms of chemical weathering.
What are acid rain and oxidation?
200
Creates sand dunes and rock arches.
What is wind erosion?
200
The process of physical weathering and erosion by ice.
What is glaciation?
200
This can occur at any plate boundary to release stress.
What is an earthquake?
300
This layer lies between the crust and the core
What is the mantle
300
Type of weathering caused by living things
What is biological weathering?
300
Creates landforms such as valleys, canyons, caverns or floodplains.
What is water erosion?
300
The type of valleys glaciers form.
What are u-shaped valleys?
300
Beaches change shape and size because of ___________.
What is wave erosion?
400
This layer that has oceanic and continental
What is the crust
400
The grinding and scraping by wind, water or human activity.
What is abrasion?
400
A curve or bend in a stream bed.
What is a meander?
400
Long Island and Cape Cod were created this way.
What are terminal moraines?
400
River erosion can move all sizes of ______________.
What is sediment?
500
The asthenosphere and lithosphere are both part of what layer
What is the mantle
500
Plants, algae, lichens, fungi, and bacteria can dissolve rocks for nutrients.
What is chemical biological weathering?
500
Triangle-shaped area at the mouth of a river and where deposition occurs.
What is a delta?
500
Created by glacial weathering and is evidence of glacial activity, specifically abrasion.
What are striations?
500
The material that is produced by explosive volcanoes.
What is pyroclastic material