Vocabulary
These are types of rocks that are formed by the accumulation, compaction, or deposition of mineral or organic particles at the Earth's surface.
What is a sedimentary rock?
The processes of this cycle are crystallization, erosion, sedimentation, and metamorphism.
What is the rock cycle?
This type of energy is nonrenewable and it is captured using the heat of the earth.
What is geothermal energy?
The part of the mantle that is solid, but it can move like toothpaste. It is the layer below the lithospheric mantle.
What is the asthenosphere?
These beautiful islands were formed by a hot spot.
What are the Hawaiian Islands?
A natural resource that is in limited supply.
What is nonrenewable?
When rocks are subjected to high heat, high pressure, hot mineral-rich fluids, or more commonly, some combination of these factors.
How does a metamorphic rock form?
They pollinate many of the world's crops, which provides us with a bounty of good food.
What are honeybees?
What are oceans?
The only direct way we have of learning about dinosaurs is by studying these.
Who are fossils?
This is the name for the permanent destruction and clearing of forests.
What is deforestation?
Events that occur above the surface such as weathering and erosion.
What are subsurface events?
This process causes fertile land to become desert-like.
What is desertification?
This geological event mainly occurs at transform boundaries. They are common at the San Andreas Fault in California.
What are earthquakes?
Coal, crude oil, and natural gas are considered this type of fuel.
What is a fossil fuel?
A current where flowing fluid is moving because there is a temperature or density difference within the material.
What is a convection current?
This process occurs by partial melting of mantle rocks. As the rocks move upward, they start to melt a little bit. They may collect in a chamber
How is magma formed?
This is the name for the process of clearing natural vegetation and replacing it with concrete and buildings.
What is urbanization?
This geological event mainly occurs at convergent boundaries.
What are mountains?
This term comes from the Roman name "Vulcan".
What is volcano?
The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
What is lithosphere?
A type of rock created from volcanic eruptions.
What is an igneous rock?
Who is NASA?
This occurs when movement of plates release energy.
What are seismic waves?
More than a million of these rattle the world each year.
What are earthquakes?