Vocabulary
Name of what happens when water seeps into rocks and freezes.
What is ice wedging or weathering by expanding?
The two regions of the Earth the Moho discontinuity separate.
What are the crust and mantle?
Mountains are worn down over time by weathering and erosion. Name a source of this.
What is wind, water, or glaciers (ice)?
Why is earth's inner core solid?
What is pressure freezing?
Evaporation and condensation of a mixture to separate out the mixture's individual components.
What is distillation?
Two types of weathering.
What are mechanical & chemical weathering?
What two regions of the earth does the Gutenberg discontinuity separate?
What are the mantle & core?
This is the process that moves weathered materials.
What is erosion?
Earth's magnetic field is generated here.
What is Earth's core?
What two regions of the Earth does the Lehmann discontinuity separate?
What are the inner and outer core?
What factor is most important in a stream's ability to erode: salinity, volume of flow, depth, or speed?
What is speed?
Life would cease to exist without the Earth's __________ because of high energy cosmic rays.
What is the magnetosphere?
The sum of all water on a planet.
What is hydrosphere?
Ice wedging, plucking and abrasion
What is mechanical weathering?
The type of rock found in the asthenosphere.
What is plastic rock?
An example of wind erosion.
What are sand dunes?
The cause of Earth's magnetic field is this.
What is electrical flow in the core?
The process that moves sediments.
What is erosion?
V-shaped valleys are caused by this.
What is a stream?
The four regions of earth.
What are crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
What is an erosion process that occurs with glaciers?
What is plucking?
Which is liquid, inner or outer core?
What is outer core?