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ScienceTermsforEarth
Planet Earth
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Continental Drift | The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface. |
| Deposition | The process by which sedimant settles out of the water or wind tht is carrying it. |
| Earthquake | The shaking that results for the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface. |
| Erosion | The destructive process in which wter or wind loosen and carry away fragments of rock. |
| Fault | A break in Earth's crust where slabs of rock slip past each other. |
| Fossil | A trace of an Ancient organism that has been preserved in rock. |
| Geology | The study of planet earth. |
| Igneous Rock | A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface. |
| Lava | Liquid magma that reaches the surface; lso the rock formed when liquid lava hardens. |
| Magma | The molten mixture of rock forming substances, gases and water from the mantle. |
| Metamorphic Rock | A type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions. |
| Mineral | A naturally-occuring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition. |
| Pangaea | The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million yers ago and gave rise to today's continents. |
| Plate Tectonics | The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle. |
| Richter Scale | A scale that rates seismic waves as measured by a particular type of mechanical seismograph. |
| Sedimentary Rock | A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together. |
| Volcano | A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface. |
| Glacier | Moving mass of ice tht survives year to year, formed by the compacting of snow into neve and then into granular ice and set in motion outward and downward by the force of gravity and stress of its accumlted mass. |
| Hydrosphere | The water on or surronding the surface of the globe, including water of the oceans and the water in the Atmosphere. |
| Humus | The dark organic material in soils, produced by the decomposition of vegtable or animal matter and essential to the fertility of the Earth. |
| Lithosphere | A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and crust. |
| Permeable | |
| Soil | |
| Weathering |
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