Weathering
The changing of rocks by chemical processes
What is Chemical Weathering?
A great flow of water over an area that is usually dry land
What is a flood?
The drop-off at the edge of the continental shelf
What is the Continental Slope?
The direction a wave moves
What is a circle?
The world’s largest living organism
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
A destructive process that breaks down rocks
What is weathering?
The process of gravity quickly pulling rocks and dirt downhill
What is a landslide?
The area located between the edge of the oceanic crust and the mid-ocean ridge
What is the Ocean Basin?
The daily rising and falling in a regular cycle of Earth’s waters
What are Tides?
Also known as Aurora Borealis
What is the Northern Lights?
To use a resource wisely
What is to Conserve?
The part of a river that is winding
What is a Meander?
An underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed.
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
This occurs because of differences in salinity or water temperatures.
What is a Deep Ocean Current?
Formed when the India Plate and Eurasian Plate Collided
What is Mount Everest?
The breaking down of rock by gravity, ice, or plant roots
What is Mechanical Weathering?
An opening between barrier islands
What is an inlet?
A deep valley that forms when an ocean plate moves below another plate.
What is an Ocean Trench?
Mostly caused by wind moving over the ocean
What is a Surface Current?
Formed by sandstone cracking in the basalt plateau. The largest waterfall containing water
What is Victoria Falls?
The processes by which materials are moved from one place to another place
What is Erosion and Deposition?
Large, flat areas of land that are relatively low.
What are Plains?
The notch, or valley, between the edges of the plates at a spreading plate boundary
What is the Rift Zone?
Tides are caused by this
What is the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Moon?
Formed by erosion from the Atlantic Ocean
What is The Harbor of Rio de Janeiro?