Vocabulary
Rocks formed when chemical reactions cement sediments together, hardening them
What is sedimentary rock?
Rocks that start as one type and are transformed by high temperature or pressure
Evaporation of water from plant sediments
What is transpiration?
Difference between weathering and erosion.
What is weathering breaks down or chemically alters rocks, and erosion wears down and carries the sediment away?
2 most common features of fast-moving streams in mountainous areas.
What are v-shaped valleys and waterfalls?
Any process that breaks down rocks and creates sediment
What is weathering?
Small, solid fragments of rock-like gravel, sand, silt, mud, or clay
What is sediment?
The Moho is found between these two layers of the Earth.
What is the crust and the mantle?
What is water (streams, rivers, waves) glaciers, gravity, weathering, wind?
Give an example of chemical weathering
acid rain, rusting
The process that moves sediments
What is erosion?
A series of processes in which forces within Earth and at the surface cause rocks to continuously change from one type to another.
It blocks cosmic rays from the sun
Where most of the Earth's liquid freshwater is found.
What is groundwater?
Give an example of mechanical weathering?
What is ice wedging, abrasion, plants or animals?
Solid, naturally occurring, inorganic substances that have a definite chemical composition and a crystalline structure
What are minerals
Evaporation and condensation of a mixture to separate out the mixture's individual components.
What is distillation?
What scientists use to observe and study the layers of the Earth
What are seismic waves?
Difference between mechanical and chemical weathering.
What is mechanical weathering is the physical breakdown of rocks and chemical weathering changes the composition of the rock and occurs when water reacts with minerals changing them, or dissolves them?
Name the 4 layers of the Earth
What is crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
Rocks formed when magma cools
What is igneous rock?
Water falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is precipitation?
The part of the Earth's core that is liquid.
What is the outer core?
Describe the rock cycle?
The process of changing a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation?