Question | Answer |
What is 'The Core'? | What is at the center of the earth; temperature and pressure are very high |
What is 'The Mantle'? | Outside of the core, makes up most of the earth’s mass |
What is 'The Crust'? | The outer most layer of earth, it is about 25 miles thick |
What is 'Magma'? | Liquid rock that is within the earth’s surface |
What is it called when Magma reaches Earth's surface? | Lava |
What are 'Plate Tectonics'? | Explains how forces within earth create landforms |
What is the movement of earth's plates across the mantle called? | Continental Drift |
What is a 'Rift Valley'? | Formed underwater when tectonic plates move apart from one another |
What is the 'Abyssal Plains'? | When ocean floors sink because there is no earth below them |
What is 'Weathering'? | The process by which rocks break down and decay over time |
What is 'Sediment'? | The smaller particles of rock, gravel, sand, and mud that weathering breaks into |
What is the movement of surface material from one location to another | Erosion |
What is a 'Glacier'? | Thick masses of ice also erode rock and move sediment |
What is a 'Plateau'? | An elevated flatland that rises sharply above nearby land on at least one side |
What is it called when sediment is eroded from a mountain to the base? | Alluvial Fan |
What is a 'Delta'? | Accumulated sediment at the opening of an ocean |