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Inside Earth Vocab!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| continental drift | The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface |
| deposition | The process by witch sediments settles out of the water or wind that is carrying it |
| earthquake | The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface |
| erosion | The destructive process in which water or wind lossens and carry away fragments of rock |
| fault | A brake in Earth's crust where slads of rock slips each other |
| fossil | A trace of an acient organism that has been preserved in a rock |
| geology | A scientist who studies the force that make a shape and shape plant Earth |
| igneous rock | A type of rock thst forms from the cooling of molten at or below the surface |
| lava | Liquid magma that reaches the surface; also the rock formed when liquid lava hardness |
| magma | The molten miixture of rock-forming substances,gases,and water from the mantle |
| metamorphic rock | a type if rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat,pressure, or chemical reactions |
| mineral | A naturally-occurring, inorganic soild that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition |
| Pangaea | The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave to tadays continents |
| plate tectonics | The theory that pieces of Earth's litosphere are in constant motion,driven by convection currents in the mantle |
| Richter scale | A scake that rates seismic waves as measured by a particula 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 ro the surface |
| glacier | a large body of continuously accumulating ice and compacted snow, formed in mountain valleys or at the poles, that deforms under its own weight and slowly moves |
| hydrosphere | the portion of Earth's surface that is water, including the seas and water in the atmosphere |
| humus | a dark-brown organic component of soil that is derived from decomposed plant and animal remains and animal excrement. Humus improves the water-retaining properties of soil, adds nutrients, and makes it more workable. |
| lithosphere | a dark-brown organic component of soil that is derived from decomposed plant and animal remains and animal excrement. Humus improves the water-retaining properties of soil, adds nutrients, and makes it more workable. |
| permeable | allowing liquids, gases, or magnetic fields to pass through |
| soil | the top layer of most of the Earth's land surface, consisting of the unconsolidated products of rock erosion and organic decay, along with bacteria and fungi |
| weathering | the effect of prolonged exposure to the weather on, e.g. a building |
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