Hayden: Landforms
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| Magma | Liquid rock in the Earth | ||||
| Deforestation | Act of cutting down trees | ||||
| Plate Tectonics | Theory that Earth's crust is divided into rigid plates moving across the mantle | ||||
| Continental Drift | Process by which Earth's plates slowly move across the mantle | ||||
| Evaporation | Process by which the suns heat turns a liquid into a gas | ||||
| Condensation | Process by which air cools and gas turns into a liquid forming clouds | ||||
| Watershed | An entire region drained by a river and its tributaries | ||||
| Drainage Basin | A region drained by a river and its tributaries | ||||
| Ore | Mineral-bearing rocks | ||||
| Desalinazation | Process by which salt is removed from seawater | ||||
| Weathering | Process by which rocks break and decay over time | ||||
| Erosion | Movement of surface material from one place to another by means of water, wind and ice | ||||
| Fault | Places where rock masses have been broken apart and are moving away from each other | ||||
| Estuaries | An area where a river meets and ocean or sea and saltwater mixes with freshwater | ||||
| Water Table | The groundwater level at which all the cracks spaces in rock are filled with water | ||||
| Landform | A geographic feature created by plate tectonics, weathering and erosion | ||||
| Precipitation | clouds become heavy and gravity pulls the Water to the ground and returns it to the lakes, rivers and water table | ||||
| Convergent Fault | Plates collide and can create mountains or a subduction zone | ||||
| Divergent Fault | Plates spread apart and create trenches and volcanoes | ||||
| Strike-Slip Fault | Plates rub together and create earthquakes | ||||
| Rift Valley | Places on the earth's surface where the crust stretches until it cracks | ||||
| Abyssal Plains | Area of the ocean floor where rocks sink because they have no heat below to support them | ||||
| Continental Shelves | Areas where continental surfaces extend under the shallow waters around the continents | ||||
| Sediment | Small particles of weathered rock | ||||
| Headwaters | first and smallest streams formed from the run off of mountains forming rivers | ||||
| Tributaries | any smaller river that flows into a larger one | ||||
| Groundwater | Water found below the surface | ||||
| Humus | Broken down plant and animal matter in soil | ||||
| Leaching | Downward movement of minerals and humus in soils | ||||
| Soil Exhaustion | Condition where soil has lost its nutrients and is nearly useless for growing crops | ||||
| Irrigation | Process where water is artificially supplied to the land | ||||
| Aquifer | Rock layers where groundwater is plentiful | ||||
| Fossil Fuels | Energy resources made from the remains of ancient plants and animals |
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Created by:
chayden
on 2008-11-14