Calvert Earth Science

What is the force that every object exerts on every other object?

States that geological processes today are similar to those that occurred in the past.

The breakdown of rock by oxygen and water to create rust.

What is the mechanism or driving force of plate tectonics?

The breakdown of rock by water and carbon dioxide mixing to create carbonic acid. (Forms Caves)

This is the breakdown of rock.

The laying down or settling of eroded material

What two properties in the Earth's layers causes seismic waves to bend?

What happens to the oldest oceanic crust at a mid ocean ridge?

What two theories did Alfred Wegener discover?

Why does the wind and water deposit their sediment when they slow down?

What is the thickest layer in Earth's interior?

During reversed polarity, magnetic north points...

Why do we only feel Earth's gravity and nothing else?

What forms at a continental-oceanic convergent plate boundary?

Which of the following landform is created by wind DEPOSITION

Breakdown of rock by smaller rocks being picked up by wind/water and wearing down bigger rocks.

After the nebula flattens, what is the next step?

What two factors affect the strength of gravity?

List the layers from most dense to least dense

The solar system started as a ...

The present day layers of Earth separated due to their...

Water and wind deposit their sediment when...

The removal of weathered material

What is the state of matter of the outer core?

What forms at an oceanic-oceanic convergent plate boundary?

What is the state of matter of the inner core?

What are the two types of crust?

How old is the Earth in years?

What forms at a continental-continental divergent plate boundary?

What happens on the outside bend of a river as water rushes around the corner?

What type of landform is created by water depositing on the inside bend of a river?

What forms at a continental-continental convergent plate boundary?

The principle that in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom.

The remaining bits of material left over from the nebula created...

The breakdown of rock by water mixing with sulfur and nitrogen

After thermal energy melted the rock, how did the Earth become a sphere?

Which layer floats on top of the asthenosphere?

What forms at a continental-continental transform plate boundary?

Which layer makes up the plates?

Which direction does a divergent plate boundary move?

Which direction does a transform plate boundary move?

What is a cloud of ice, dust, and gas in space?

Which layer combines the crust and upper mantle?

What forms at an oceanic-oceanic divergent plate boundary?

Where do we find the newest oceanic crust?

Which of the following landform is created by water DEPOSITION

The densest materials in the nebula go to the middle to create...

Why is the inner core a solid?

What is the state of matter of the lithosphere?

What is the state of matter of the asthenosphere

Which direction does a convergent plate boundary move?