Unit 1 Weathering
Tiny bits of weather rock.
What is sediment?
Massive, rigid, irregularly shaped slabs of solid rock that cover the Earth
What are tectonic plates?
The layer of the atmosphere that we live in.
What is the Troposphere?
The term for Earth spinning every 24 hours.
What is rotation?
The wearing away of rock into tiny bits.
What is weathering
This type of plate boundary occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other.
What is transform?
This layer of the atmosphere is the outermost layer.
What is the exosphere?
The term for the Earth orbiting the Earth, it takes about 365 days.
What is revolution?
When sediment is dropped or deposited.
What is deposition?
The type of plate boundary where two plates collide.
What is a convergent boundary?
This layer is the hottest.
What is the Thermosphere?
The imaginary line that the Earth spins on.
What is the axis?
When sediment is moved or flowing.
What is erosion?
The type of plate boundary when two tectonic plates seperate.
What is divergent?
This layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
The first moon phase in the lunar cycle.
What is a new moon?
This landform is created from deposition.
A) Canyon C) Marsh
B) Cliff D) Plateau
C) Marsh
This natural disaster can occur at all three types of plate boundaries.
What is an earthquake?
This layer of the atmosphere contains the Aurora Borealis.
What is the Thermosphere?
When day and night are of approximately equal length.
What is the equinox?