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1st semister vocab.
Science vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The process of obtaining fresh water from salt water by removing salt | Desalination |
| Burnining of fuel | Combustion |
| Said of a volcano that is unlikely to errupt agsin | Extinct |
| When many types of living things become extinct at the same time | Mass Extinction |
| The age of a rock compared to the ages of rock layers | Relative Age |
| The reserved remains or traces of living things | Fossils |
| A series of processes on the surface and inside the earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another | Rock Cycle |
| A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface | Igneous Rock |
| A type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions | Metamorphic Rock |
| A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and semented together | Sedimentary Rock |
| A water shrtage caused by long periods of low precipitation in a particular area | Drought |
| The practice of reducing energy use | Enargy Conservation |
| A resource that is naturally replaced in a relatively short time | Renwable Resource |
| A natural resource that is not replaced as it is used | Nonrenewable Resource |
| An energy-rich substance formed from the remains of organisms | Fossil Fuel |
| Stress that sqeezes rock unyil it folds or breaks | Compression |
| A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions | Transform Boundary |
| A rigid layer made of the upper mantle and the crust | Lithosphere |
| A plate Boundary where two plates move away from each other | Divergent Boundary |
| A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other | Convergent Boundary |
| A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel in the center of the earth | Inner Core |
| A grinding away of rock with another rock | Abrasion |
| Rain that is more acid than normal, caused by the release of molecules of sulfer dioxide and nitrogen oxide to the air | Acid Rain |
| Characteristic of materials such as sand and gravel that allow water to pass easily through them | Permeable |
| The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves fragments of rock or soil | Erosion |
| The chemical and physical process that breaks rock down on earth's surface | Weathering |
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