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| The natural process by which atmospheric and enviromental agents, suc has wind, rain, and tempature changes, disintegrate and decompse rocks |
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| Rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies |
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| A rock that forms from compressed or cemented layers of sediment |
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| A rock that forms from other rocks as a result of intense heat, pressure, or chemical processes |
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| The series of processes in which rock forms, changes from one type to another, is destroyed, and forms again by geologic processes |
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| The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another |
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| A type of irregular topography that is characterized by caverns, sinkholes, and unerground drainaige and that forms on limestone or other soluble rock |
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| The rock material carried and deposited by glaciers |
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| A mass of material deposited in a trinagular or fan shape at the mouth of a river or stream |
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| A fan shaped mass of rock material deposited by a stream when the slope of the land decreases |
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| Dark, organic material formed in soil from the decayed remains of plants and animals |
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| A layer of soil within a soil profile |
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| A vericle section of soil that shows the layers, or horizons |
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| The layer of rock between the Earth's crust and core |
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| The central part of Earth below the mantle |
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| The thin and solid outermost layer of Earth above the mantle |
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| The solid, outer layer of Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle |
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| The liquid layer of Earh's Core. It lies beneath the mantle and surronds the inner core |
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| Is the solid, dense center of our planet that extends from the bottom of the outter core to the center of Earth |
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| The supercontinent that formed 300 million years ago and that began to break up 200 million years ago |
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| The theory that explains how large pieces of the lithosphere, called plates, move and change shape |
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