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Soil
Weathering
Earthquakes
Plate Tectonics
Rocks
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45% of soil is made of this
What is mineral matter?
100
process that occurs when physical forces break rock into smaller pieces without changing the rock’s chemical composition
What is physical/mechanical weathering?
100
waves that travel the quickest and can travel through liquid
What are p waves?
100
the three layers of the earth in order from inside the earth out
What is the core, mantle, and crust.
100
compaction and cementation creates this rock type
What is sedimentary?
200
organic material in soil
What is humus?
200
weathering processes involves the constant freezing and thawing of water
What is frost wedging?
200
a fracture in Earth where movement has occurred
What is a fault?
200
This sphere includes the asthenosphere and lithosphere
What is the geosphere?
200
fossils are found only in this rocky type
What is sedimentary?
300
soil type found in hot, tropical climate
What is laterite?
300
the reason why rock weathering is reduced in the desert environment
What is dry? (small amount of water!)
300
scale used by scientists to measure earthquakes
What is the moment magnitude scale?
300
a geographic example of a transform fault boundary
What is the San Andreas Fault in California?
300
the name of rock that forms when magma hardens
What is intrusive igneous rock?
400
main source of organic matter in soil
What are plants?
400
Chemical weathering is highest in these areas
What is wet and warm?
400
a time travel graph can be used to find this
What is the epicenter?
400
The Hawaiian Islands were formed when the Pacific plate moved over this
What is a hot spot?
400
the agent of metamorphism that can cause the overall composition of the rock to change
What is hydrothermal solutions? (Rocks undergo chemical changes when water is there....they need more than just heat or pressure!)
500
soil type most likely found in North Carolina
What is pedalfer? (It is found in temperature climates.)
500
What type of weathering creates a sink hole?
What is chemical weathering?
500
three disasters triggered by earthquakes
What are fires, tsunamis, mass movements, and/or floods?
500
this causes the thermal convection that drives plate motion
What is unequal heat distribution?
500
the two places where all of the energy that drives Earth’s rock cycle comes from
What is Earth’s interior (heat at the core) and the sun?