Science Earth Test
review for the test on 11/14
note the definition is word for word with the packet
note the definition is word for word with the packet
Terms
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- outer core
- is above its melting point, therefore this layer is a liquid
- sediment
- small broaken down peices of earth
- soil
- is made of weathered rock, organic matter, water, and air
- crust
- the thinnest, outermost layer, which complataly surrounds earth
- earthquake
- vibrations produced when rocks break along a fault
- fault
- surface along which rocks move when they pass their elastic limit and break
- erosion
- the movement of sediment to a new location
- mantle
- a liquid-like plastic that the crust "floats" on
- glaciers
- masses of ice that moves slowly downhill
- deposition
- when sediments are put down into place when the erosion agent stops or slows down
- inner core
- is verry dense and verry hot
- density formula
- D=m/v
- rock cycle
- an ongoing cycle in which a rock may be transformed or changed into another type of rock
- weathering
- breakes rock into smaller pieces