click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Stack #3905732
| term | defention |
|---|---|
| hydrosphere | the water of the earth ,incluiding ocans lakes rivers and other bodies of water |
| lithosphere | uppermostlayerr of the esrth thst includes the crust conteints and ocean basins |
| atmosphere | thin layer of gases the surrounds the earth |
| biosphere | the pasr of the earth where life exits |
| core | innermost layerof the earthg made up of a super hot but solid inner core and super hot liquid outer core |
| mantel | thick middel layer of the earths intentior strutre constisting if hot rock that is dense but flexabile |
| crust | outerlayer of the earth a har rocky shell forming earths surface |
| conteinental drif | the theory that the cintinest were once joined and then slowy drifted apart |
| plate techtontincs | the term scinteisr use ti deswribe the activities of continal drif and magmaflow wich creat many of earths physicail feterues |
| magma | molten rock tht is located below thee earths surface |
| accreaction | slow process inwich an oceanic plate slides under a conteinetal creatign debris that can casue conteints to grow outward |
| spreading | process by wich magma wells up between oceainc plates and pushes the paltes apart |
| fold | a bend in layers of rocj sommetimes casued by plate movment |
| fault | a crack or brake in the eearths surface |
| faulting | process of crackign that occurs when the folded land cannot be bent ant further |
| weathering | checial or physicailnnn procewss that break down roicks ihnti smaller pices |
| eroison | the movemnt of weatherd rock or other things by wind glacers anf moving water |
| moraine | piles of rocky debris left by melting glaciers |