Earth Vocabulary

Is the sudden movement of Earth's crust

• earthquake
• fault
• landslide
• weathering

Line of volcanic mountains

• island chain
• lava
• erosion
• glacier

Is the process through which weathered rock is moved from one place to another.

• erosion
• deposition
• weathering
• landslide

Gentle loops, sometimes forms in rivers with slow moving water.

• meander
• sediment
• glacier
• river

The crust and the upper mantle

• lithosphere
• asthenosphere
• hydrosphere
• core

Is a squeezing or a pushing together of the crust

• compression
• fault
• crust
• magma

Is an opening in Earth's crust, and they form on land and on the ocean floor.

• volcano
• earthquake
• fault
• island chain

It occurs when chemicals breakdown rocks.

• chemical weathering
• weathering
•  physical weathering
• lava

All of Earth's liquid and solid water

• hydrosphere
• lithosphere
• atmosphere
• asthenosphere

The process by which eroded materials are dropped off into another place.

• deposition
• sediments
• erosion
• weathering