Earth Shaping Processes
The remains of an organism preserved in rock form.
What is a fossil?
What is Sedimentary Rock?
shaking of the ground caused by a seimic wave
What is an earthquake?
wave or series of waves caused by displaced water.
What is a Tsunami?
movement of sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
a scientist who studies what Earth is made
of and how it changes over time
What is a Geologist?
This type of rock is made of magma or lava that has cooled and hardened.
What is Igneous Rock?
tools used to detect and measure earthquakes
What are seimographs?
to move into its space and push it out of position.
What is to displace?
It is known as one of the most dangerous agents of erosion.
What is water?
a large fragment of Earth's crust and upper mantle.
What is a plate?
This type of rock forms when either sedimentary or igneous rock is put under tremendous pressure
What is metamorphic rock?
These can travel across Earth's surface and through Earth's mantle and crust.
What are seimic waves?
special buoys placed in the oceans to detect the rise and fall of water waves
What are tsunameters?
a form of mass movement in which a large section of a slope slides downhill all at once
What is a landlside?
The layer of Earth where magma forms is called the what
What is the mantle?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The size or extent of an earthquake.
What is magnitude?
an opening in the Earth's crust through which lava erupts.
What is a volcano?
It causes landslides by pulling down on dirt, rock, and debris on a slope.
What is gravity?
all of these make up the layers of the Earth, name them
What are the: inner and outer cores, upper and lower mantles and crust?
These form when Earth's crust or plate push against each other. They can push upward or one plate will slide downward.
What is how mountains are formed?
They study the readings from seismographs and work together to help communities prepare for danger in their areas.
What are Seimologists?
It is known as Earth's largest plate.
What is the Pacific plate?
new boulders at the base of a slope, tilting trees, or other objects, including poles.
What is evidence of a possible landslide?