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Ch. 8 Science

Published on Nov 28, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Ch. 8 Science

By: Jacey Brown
Photo by kevin dooley

fold mountain

made by rock layers folded by being squeezed together

fault-block mountain

huge tilted blocks of rocks separeted by a fault
Photo by Ken Lund

weathering

breaking down by rocks in process

erosion

picking up and removing particles

soil

loose weathered rock that can 
Photo by brewbooks

humus

material produced by breaking down plant a

soil horizon

layers of soil from the surface to the bedrock

groundwater

rainwater that soaks into spaces between rock fragments underground

mass wasting

downhill movement of Earth's material caused by gravity

deposition

dropping off of sediments in mass wasting

glacier

slow moving sheets of ice and snow
Photo by Aztlek

till

jumble of many sizes of sediment deposited by a glacier when it melts

moraine

a till in front of or along slide a glacier

mineral

naturally occuring solid with a definite structure

igneous rock

forms when hot liquid rock cools and hardens in a solid

sedimentary rock

forms when pieces of other rocks that are squeezed together

metamorphic rock

formed from another kind of rock that is changed

rock cycle

rocks are continually changing from one to another

superposition

a series of layers bottom layer is the oldest 

relative age

age of a rock as compared to another rock

geologic columm

listing of Earth's rock layers from oldest to youngest

fossil

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

index fossil

remains of a living things that was widespread lived a short part of Earth's history

half-life

time it takes for half the mass of an element to change into a new element  

absolute age

rocks age in years

era

long peroid of time in Earth's history