Chaper 4 Flashcards
Earths center.
Core
Beyond the earths core part that has the most iron and nickel.
Mantle
Liquid rock within the earth.
magma
How the forces with the earth create land forms.
plate tectonics
The slow of moving an in/per/year
Continental drafting
The crust that stretches until it brakes.
rift valleys
The smoothest and flattest regions.
abyssal plains
Deep valley marking the plate collisions
trench
Rock that has been compressed into bends
fold
Rock masses that are broken apart and moved from each other.
faults
Rock that break and decay over time.
weathering
smaller particles such as gravel,mud,and sand.
sediment
Moving land surface to one place to another.
erosion
thick mass of ice
glaciers
elevated flat land that rises sharply above nearby land.
plateau
deposit of mud,gravel,and often found along bases of mountains.
alluvial fan
sediment that moves out into the eocon and sinks.
delta
The salt in the oceon can be removed thru.
Desalinization
The movement thru the hydrosphere is called.
hydro logic cycle
The first and smallest streams for a run fall.
headwaters
A smaller stream That flows into a larger stream.
tributary
The whole river drained by a river and its tributary is.
watershed and drainage basin
The surface of water.
estuaries
The water found below ground.
groundwater
