| Vocabulary Words | Definitions |
| Folds | When 2 plates meet
each other,they can
cause folding
& cracking
of the rock |
| Faults | The fracture in the
earth's crust |
| Epicenter | The point directly above the focus on the
earth's surface |
| Erosion | Occurs when weathered
material is moved by
the action of
wind,water,ice or
gravity |
| Water Erosion | Water picks up loose
particles & moves
them down stream |
| Wind Erosion | Similar to water
except wind picks up
the loose particles |
| Glaciers | A large,long-lasting
mass of ice that
moves because of
gravity |
| Glaciation | Is the changing
of landforms by
slowly moving glaciers |
| Moraine | Rocks left behind may
form a ridge or hill |
| Ricter Scale | Use info collected by
seismographs to determine
the relative strength of
an earthquake |
| Drainage Basin | An area drained by a major river and its tributaries |
| Aquifers | An underground layer of rock that stores water |
| Continental Shelf | The earth's surface from the edge of a continent to the deep part of the ocean |
| Ring Of Fire | A zone around the rim of the Pacific Ocean, is the location of the vast active volcanoes |
| Subduction | A geological process in which 1 edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate |
| Pangea | The super continent |
| Magma | Molten rock that forms in the mantle |
| Sediment | Weathering processes create smaller and smaller pieces of rock |
| Humus | Organic material in the soil decomposes |
