Apes Flashcards

7806715753	Earths core	Inner most part of the planet	0
7806715754	Mantle	Above the core	1
7806715755	Magama	Hot fluid below or within the earths crust	2
7806715756	Asthenosphere	the soft layer of the mantle on which pieces of the lithosphere move	3
7806715757	Lithosphere	A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust.	4
7806715758	Crust	Earth's outermost layer.	5
7806715759	Hot spot	an area in the mantle that is super heated and melts through the crust (like a blow-torch)	6
7806715760	Convection	The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid	7
7806715761	plate tectonics	A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move.	8
7806715762	tectonic cycle	the sum of the processes that build up and break down the lithosphere	9
7806715763	Subduction	when one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate	10
7806715764	Volcano	A weak spot in the crust where molten material, or magma, comes to the surface	11
7806715765	Divergent boundary	A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.	12
7806715766	Sea floor spreading	The process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor	13
7806715767	Convergent boundary	Where two plates move toward each other	14
7806715768	Transform boundary	A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions	15
7806715769	Fault	A break in the earth's crust	16
7806715770	Fault zone	A large expanse of rock where a fault has occurred.	17
7806715771	Earthquake	sudden violent shaking of the earth's ground caused by movement of the crust	18
7806715772	seismic activity	The frequency and intensity of earthquakes	19
7806715773	Epicenter	Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus	20
7806715774	Richter scale	Measures the largest ground movement during sn eathquake	21
7806715775	rock cycle	Is the continual change of rock from one kind to another	22
7806715776	Minerals	A solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence.	23
7806715777	igneous rock	a type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface	24
7806715778	Intrusive Igneous Rock	rock formed from the cooling and solidification of magma beneath Earth's surface	25
7806715779	extrusive rock	Igneous rock that forms from lava on Earth's surface	26
7806715780	Fracture	The way a mineral looks when it breaks apart in an irregular way	27
7806715781	sedimentary rock	a rock that forms from compressed or cemented layers of sediment	28
7806715782	metamorphic rock	rock that has been changed by heat and pressure	29
7806715783	Physical weathering	The mechanical breakdown of rocks and minerals.	30
7806715784	chemical weathering	The process that breaks down rock through chemical changes	31
7806715785	acid precipitation	rain, sleet, or snow that contains a high concentration of acids	32
7806715786	acid rain	rain that contains more acid than normal	33
7806715787	Erosion	Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away	34
7806715788	Deposition	Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.	35
7806715789	Soil	The loose, weathered material on Earth's surface in which plants can grow.	36
7806715790	parent material	Material that is orignial rock to sand	37
7806715791	Climate	Overall weather in an area over a long period of time	38
7806715792	Topography	Refers to the shape and elevation of land in a region	39
7806715793	Organism	A living thing	40
7806715794	rimanere	to remain	41
7806715795	soil horizon	The layer of soil that differs in color and texture from the layers above or below it.	42
7806715796	O horizon	Top level	43
7806715797	Topsoil	Mixture of humus, clay, and other minerals that forms the crumbly, topmost layer of soil.	44
7806715798	E horizon	The zone of leaching that forms under the O horizon or, less often, the A horizon.	45
7806715799	B horizon	Above e	46
7806715800	Texture	The feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface, substance, or fabric.	47
7806715801	cation exchange capacity	The ability of a particular soil to absorb and release cations	48
7806715802	Base Saturation	the proportion of soil bases to soil acids, expressed as a percentage	49
7806715803	soil degradation	The loss of some or all of a soil's ability to support plant growth.	50
7806715804	crustal abundance	The average concentration of an element in Earth's crust.	51
7806715805	Ores	Elements	52
7806715806	C horizon	weathered parent material	53
7806715807	Metals	Elements that are good conductors of electric current and heat.	54
7806715808	Reserve	Known quantity of an element	55
7806715809	Strip mining	The removal of strips of soil and rock to expose ore.	56
7806715810	tailings	piles of gangue, which is the waste material that results from mining.	57
7806715811	open pit mining	A mining technique that uses a large visible pit or hole in the ground	58
7806715812	mountaintop removal	a mining technique in which the entire top of a mountain is removed with explosives.	59
7806715813	placer mining	method of extracting mineral ore by hand using simple tools like picks, shovels, and pans	60
7806715814	subsurface mining	The extraction of mineral and energy resources from deep underground deposits.	61