Ocean
A spiral or vortex
What is a gyre?
Rock formed form by air or water
What is Sedimentary?
Melted rock fluid by which is located in the process of heating up toward the crust, then cooling down going toward the Earth’s core
What is Magma?
Imprints of animal/ objects from the past
What are Fossils?
The Earth’s daily temperatures, wind, and precipitation
What is weather?
A movement of sea water which is generated by forces acting upon the water
What is an Ocean Current?
The transformation of rock by heat and pressure
What is Metamorphic?
A geologic structure in Earth” that is formed by magma emerging through the crust of the Earth
What is a Volcano?
When living ancient living organisms get stuck in tree resin.
What is an Amber?
Substances created by the decomposition of ancient plants and animals over millions of years, for example coal
What are Fossils Fuels?
An Underwater mountain rising above the deepsea floor but not emerging above sea level
What is a Sea mount?
Being worn down by wind or water
What is Weathering?
A more thick/gooey liquid version of magma by which is in the process of magma cooling down
What is lava?
The type of scientists that study fossils
What is a Paleontologist.
The amount of sunlight that is reflected based on the surface that it falls on
What is Albedo?
The comparatively steep slope from a continental shelf to the ocean floor
What is a Continental slope?
The process by which rocks are formed or changed
What is the Rock cycle?
The geologic structure that is observed at convergent boundaries
What are Subduction zones?
The way to track the evolution of any living organism
What is a Fossil Record?
When gases in the Earth's atmosphere trap our Sun's heat
What is The GreenHouse Effect?
The salt content dissolved in a body of water
What is Salinity?
The process by which lava cool down and solidifies becoming hard
What is Igneous?
Places that magma emerges from the surface that is NOT related to a plate boundary… for example Hawaii
What are hotspots?
Once living things turned to mineral
What is Permineralization?
Provided history of CO2 levels and oxygen isotope proportions
What are Milankovitch Cycles?