Terms
What is the term for the movement of weathered material?
Erosion
What are smaller more rounded structures?
Hills
What are cracks in the Earth's crust
Faults
What is lava?
Magma that reached the surface of the Earth
What is the breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces of material?
Weathering
What is the gentle slope at the base of a mountain?
Foothill
What is a bend in the rock layers?
Fold
What are Volcanic mountains made of?
Lava and/or ash
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
Mitochondria
What is isostasy?
The thickness of the lithosphere
What is a large flat elevated area with a drop off?
Plateau
What are mountains that are formed by blocks of crust called?
Lifted/Tilted Mountains
What are rocks called that are created from lava flow?
Igneous
What are the negitively charged parts of an atom called?
Electrons
What is the term for material that has been eroded?
Sediment
What are sharp peaks that are left behind by glaciers?
Horns
What is the raised block between two faults?
Horst
What kind of landforms are Volcanic mountains?
Tectonic and depositional
Use three seismographs to triangulate the epicenter?
What is the term for the mountain building process?
Orogeny
What is a series of steep valleys lined with cliffs?
What is the lowered block between two faults?
Graben
About how many volcanoes are over the World? (Within 10,000)
Over 1,000,000
Gregor Mendel