Weathering and Erosion
The three causes of erosion are
What is wind, water, and ice?
A large, tall, rocky area of land that comes up out of the Earth's surface.
What is a mountain?
What is Secondary Waves?
The natural disaster that can occur due to the tectonic plates moving
What is earthquakes?
The preserved remains of a living thing from long ago
What is a fossil?
The two types of weathering
What is chemical and physical?
Mountains usually rise to
What is 1,000 feet?
What is primary wave?
Two plates are moving away from each other
What is divergent boundary?
What is a paleontologist?
Rock is dissolved, worn away, or broken down into small pieces
What is weathering?
Natural event that can lead to the fast change of landscape
What is Earthquakes?
Has a up and down motion
What is surface waves?
The Continental Drift was theorized by
What is Alfred Wegener?
Replaces an animal's body tissue when becoming a fossil
What is minerals?
Wearing away of the land by forces
What is Erosion?
The river that can be found in the Grand Canyon
What is the Colorado River?
Slowest to fastest wave speed
What is surface waves, secondary waves, and primary waves?
The Earth's top layer of the mantle
What is lithosphere?
A leaf leaves an imprint in the mud then blows away. The mud hardens into rock. This is an example of what type of fossil.
What is a mold fossil?
Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land
What are glaciers?
A piece of land with water on 3 sides
What is a Peninsula?
The most destructive wave
What is L-Waves/Surface-Waves?
San Andreas Fault a sliding boundary between
What is Pacific plate and North American plate?
A fossilized dinosaur footprint is an example of what type of fossil
What is trace fossil?