Earth Science
All the water on Earth makes up (is called)
What is the hydrosphere?
The driving force behind most erosion is ______________.
What is gravity?
_______ are small particles of rocks that form when rock breaks down.
What are sediments?
The kind of erosion that moves the
most rocks on Earth’s surface.
What is water erosion?
A scientist who primarily studies rocks is called _______________________.
What is a geologist?
About __________ percent of Earth's surface is covered in water.
What is 75%?
The breaking down of rock at or near Earth's surface is called _________________.
What is weathering?
A flat piece of land formed by deposition at the mouth of a river is ______________________.
What is a delta?
A mountain would become smaller due to ____________________.
What is weathering and erosion?
A scientist who studies fossils primarily is called a ________________________.
What is a paleontologist?
All of the living things or organisms on Earth are ______________.
What is the biosphere?
These break down rock by weathering.
What are wind, water, animals, and gravity?
Melted sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks.
What is magma or lava?
A chart that describes the events in Earth's history is _____________.
What is the Geologic Timescale?
The theory that explains volcanoes, earthquakes, seafloor spreading, and other concepts.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
All of the solid, non-living parts of Earth are _____________.
What is the geosphere?
The moving of weathered rock is _______________.
What is erosion?
The process that creates igneous rock from lava or magma is _______________________.
What is cooling and hardening?
Earth's 4.6 billion year old history was revealed with this evidence.
What is the fossil record, rock strata, and geologic processes?
A remnant, impression, or trace of a living organism that lived in the distant past, preserved in rock or other geological features is _______________.
What is a fossil?
The layer of gases that surround the Earth are ___________________.
What is the atmosphere?
_______ is when the wind/water/glacier drops the material they are eroding.
What is deposition?
The process that creates metamorphic rock from other rocks is ________________________.
What is extreme heat and pressure?
The 3 types of categories of rocks (based on how they form) are ___________________________.
What is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?
The process that creates sedimentary rock from sediments is ___________________.
What is compaction and cementation?