Chapter 3 Test

The gradual transporting of dirt and rocks by wind or water.

• Earth's Core

• Erosion

• Weathering

Earth's only liquid layer, just above the solid inner core.

• Earth's Core

• Erosion

• Earth's Outer Core

The super-hot, super-dense center of Earth.

• Earth's Core

• Earth's Outer Core

• Tectonic Plates

The breaking down of rocks, often caused by water on Earth's atmosphere.

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Asthenosphere

Huge pieces of the lithosphere that move one to two inches a year.

• Earth's Core

• Tectonic Plates

• Erosion

The largest part of Earth's interior between the core at the center and the crust on the surface.

• Asthensophere

• Mantle

• Fault

A part of the upper mantle layer of Earth.

• Mantle

• Fault

• Asthenosphere

A sudden shaking of the ground and ocean floor caused by the shifting of blocks and rocks.

• Convection

• Earthquake

• Mantle

What happens when heat from a warmer material rises and then cools and begins to sink.

• Convection

• Mantle

• Fault

A break between two blocks of rock that allows them to move.

• Fault

• Mantle

• Convection