Earth Systems
Condensation and transpiration are two processes in this cycle.
What is the water cycle?
The texture of this type of rock is altered as it forms.
What is metamorphic rock?
Scientists believe tectonic plates move because of these currents in Earth's mantle.
This huge wave is caused as a result of an earthquake underwater.
What is a tsunami?
This process is responsible for formation of sediment.
What is weathering?
What is the geosphere?
What is igneous rock?
Deep ocean trenches form at this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
This is the term for magma that erupts out of the ground.
What is lava?
This process moves sediment, via water, ice, or wind.
What is erosion?
Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are two processes in this cycle.
What is the carbon cycle?
The chemical composition of rock is altered under extreme temperature and pressure to form this type of rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
Mid-ocean ridges form at this type of plate boundary.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
This is the feature observed above a transform boundary, along which earthquakes often occur.
What is a fault?
This process breaks down rocks by changing their composition. For example, acid rain dissolves limestone.
What is chemical weathering?
What is the phosphorus cycle?
This part of Earth's geosphere is liquid, and responsible for Earth's magnetic field.
What is the outer core?
This type of force is mostly observed at transform plate boundaries.
What is shear?
This phenomenon causes sediment to behave less like a solid, and is responsible for landslides.
What is liquefaction?
Tree root intrusion is a primary example of this process.
What is physical weathering?
What are greenhouse gases?
This type of rock forms as small pieces of other rocks pile up in one area.
Rift lakes are evidence for what type of force, exerted at divergent plate boundaries?
What is tension?
This solid, outer layer of the geosphere includes Earth's crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
When a glacier eventually melts, it leaves behind this large pile of sediment. Long Island is one.
What is a moraine?