consists of the sun and nine known planets, oops now eight known planets
What is the solar system?
100
the motion of this leads to the moderate temperature of the air over land
What is the ocean?
100
enormous moving pieces of the earth's lithosphere
What is tectonic plates?
100
small pieces of rock which can be identified as mud, sand, or silt
What is sediment?
100
the water elements of the earth
What is hydrosphere?
200
a layer of gases that surround the earth
What is atmosphere?
200
the continuous circulation of water between the atmosphere, the oceans, and the earth
What is hydrologic cycle?
200
the different ways in which the tectonic plates can move
What is divergent, convergent, & transform
200
a fan-like landform made by deposited sediment, when a river flows into an ocean
What is delta?
200
term for masses of ice change the topography of a region
What is glaciation?
300
this place consists of crust, magma, mantle, & core
What is the interior of the earth?
300
a large ice mass the moves slowly down a mountain or over land
What is a glacier?
300
a fracture in the earth's surface where the plates move past each other
What is fault?
300
rocks left behind my a melting glacier, can form a ridge or a hill
What is moraine?
300
a giant ocean wave, sometimes caused by an earthquake
What is tsunami?
400
the rocky part of the earth's surface
What is lithosphere?
400
the earth's surface to from the edge of a continent to the deep part of the ocean
What is continental shelf?
400
Scientists use this device to measure the size of waves created during an earthquake.
What is seismography?
400
organic material found in the earth's soil that adds to its ability to nurture plants
What is humus?
400
when magma flows out of the earth's surface
What is lava?
500
the idea that maintains there was once a super continent, that slowing drifted apart
What is continental drift?
Bonus - What was the name of this super continent?
500
the difference in elevation of a landform from its lowest to its highest point
What is relief?
500
the location a vast majority of active volcanoes
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
this refers to the physical (mechanical) and the chemical processes that change the characteristics of rock
Bonus - this occurs when weathered material is moved by wind, water, ice, or gravity
What is weathering?
What is erosion?
500
liquid held in the pores of rocks just below the earth's surface