Earth Science
All the water on Earth makes up (is called)
What is the hydrosphere?
The most common agent of erosion is ______________.
What is water?
_______ are small particles of rocks that form when rock breaks down.
What are sediments?
The next stage in the sun's life
What is a red giant?
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, ice, 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 solidification?
Earth's 4.6 billion year old history was revealed with this evidence.
What is the fossil record, rock strata, and geologic processes?
A species that lived for a brief geologic time period and was found all over the world _______________.
What is an index 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 rocks (sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic) are described by ___________________________.
What is how they form?
The process that creates sedimentary rock from sediments is ___________________.
What is compaction and cementation?