Science Calvert Block 5
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- What is a chemical change?
- A change in matter that produces a new substance with different properties from the original.
- What is colloid?
- Particles (or droplets) large enough to block out light spread throughout another substance.
- What is hydrosphere?
- Earth's water.
- What is crust?
- The rocky surface that makes up the top of the lithosphere.
- What is a fault?
- A crack in the crust, whose sides show evidence of motion.
- What is magma?
- Hot, molten rock deep below Earth's surface.
- What is a geologist?
- A scientist who studies the Earth.
- A movement of plates that stretches or pulls apart Earth's crust.
- Tension
- A movement of plates that twists, tears, or pushes one part of Earth's crust past another.
- Shear
- A mountain formed by blocks of earth's crust moving along a fault.
- fault block
- A movement of plates that presses together or squeezes Earth's crust.
- compression
- Mountains made of crumpled and folded layers of rock.
- Fold mountains
- What is Suspension?
- A mixture of substances that separate upon standing.
- What is a solution?
- A mixture in which substances are completely blended so that the properties are the same throughout and the substances stay blended.