Geological Processes

Time periods of thousands, million, and billions of years

An opening in earth's surface through which lava, gas, and ash escape from magma underground

Layers of hardened sediment

Information that supports or refutes a claim

A network of satellites around the Earth that communicate with GPS receivers located on the ground

A region where lithospheric plates move towards each other

A deep, narrow depression on the seafloor

Hot, liquid, rock under earth's surface

Solid layer of Earth's crust and upper mantle

Sections of Earth's lithosphere

A group of interacting objects or processes

The leftover radioactive material produced by nuclear power plants

The idea that the continents were once joined together and over time broke up and moved apart

This teacher once got pooped on by a bird while driving my car, and it was NOT a convertible.

This teacher parasailed 1000s of feet off of the German Alps (mountains)

The theory that Earth's lithospheric plates are in constant motion

A rock layer that restricts the flow of groundwater

Rock that forms when magma or lava cools and solidifies

Size of an earthquake

A rock layer that allows groundwater to flow through it and collect

A desirable outcome given up to gain another outcome

A sudden release of energy in earth's interior, which can cause shaking at the surface

Any representation of a system used to help one understand and communicate how it works

A region where lithospheric plates are spreading apart

A naturally occuring event that may negatively affect people and the environment

A region where two plates move past each other

The process of one plate being pulled under another plate

This teacher cheered/danced for 8 years

The movement of rock, soil, and other earth materials down a slope

Water found underground in the spaces and cracks within earth materials

Where two or more earth's lithospheric plates meet

Parts of rocks, shells, and dead organisms that have been worn down into small pieces

Hot, liquid, rock on Earth's surface

The weak, soft, solid layer of the mantle 100-250 km below Earth's surface

A large underwater volcanic mountain chain