Earth
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- Bedrock
- principles from which other truths can be derived
- Sediment
- matter deposited by some natural process
- Sedimentation
- layer of a rock building up over billions of years
- Magma
- molten rock in the earth's crust
- Seismogram
- tracing of earthquake motion
- Model
- An idea of something of cant be fully seen or known
- Landslides
- a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
- Earthquakes
- Vibrations from the ground
- Lithospere
- The top most solid part of the Earth which is composed of the crust and some Mantlec
- Seismic Waves
- Is what causes things to move during a earthquake
- Geologists
- Scintist that study Earth
- Focus
- Were the rocks breakBelow the surface
- Glacier
- a slowly moving mass of ice
- Crust
- Layer that covers Earths Surface
- Chemical Weathering
- the process in which rock is broken down by changes in its chemical makeup
- Lava
- rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos
- Richer scale
- a scale that rates an earthquakes magnitude based on the size of its seismic wave
- Fluvial Landform
- Created by running water
- Inner core
- solid, dense center of the Earth
- Erosion
- Moves place to place
- Ash
- the residue that remains when something is burned
- Volcano
- An openin In earths crust
- Mechanical Weathering
- the process of physically breaking down rock. For example, plant growth can split rock apart
- Epicentre
- the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
- Mantle
- the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
- Deposition
- Materials being laid and piled by wind
- Biological Weathering
- Breakdown of minerals through biological activity.
- Weathering
- Breaks down rocks
- Outer core
- liquid layer of the Earth's core
- Crust
- the outer layer of the Earth