Paige Mason

a mountain made up mostly of rock layers folded by being squeezed together

a mountain made by huge tilted blocks of rocks separated from surrounding rocks by faults

the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces by natural process 

picking up and removal of rock particles

mixture of weathered rock, decayed plant and animal matter, living things, air, and water

material in soil formed by the breakdown of plant and animal material

any of the layers of soil from the surface to the bedrock below

water that soaks into soil and rock by collecting in spaces between rock particles

the downhill movement of Earth material caused by gravity

the dropping off of sediment

a huge sheet of ice and snow that moves slowly across land

a jumble of many sizes of sediment deposited by a glacier

a deposit of many sizes of sediment in front of or along the sides of a glacier

a naturally occurring solid in Earth's crust with a definite structure and composition 

a rock that forms when hot, liquid lava cools and hardens into a solid

a rock that forms from pieces of other rocks that are squeezed or cemented together

a rock that forms from another kind of rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reaction

a rock that forms from another kind of rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reaction

the idea that in a series of rock layers, the bottom layer is the oldest and the top layer is the youngest

the age of a rock as compared to another rock

a listing of Earth's rock layers in order from oldest to youngest

any trace, imprint, or remains of a living thing preserved in Earth's crust

the remains of a living thing that was widespread but lived for only a short part of Earth's history

the time it takes for half the mass of a radioactive element in a rock to break apart, or decay, into other elements

the age of a rock in years, as determined by measuring the decay rate of its radioactive elements

the remains of a living thing that was widespread but lived for only a short part of Earth's history