Earth's forces World Geography Unit 1

The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface.

• weathering
• exogenic
• deposition

The process by which wind water ice or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another

• erosion
• atmosphere
• weathering

the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.

• continental drift
• lithosphere
• deposition

A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move.

• plate tectonics
• endogenic
• environment

The collisions between plates cause enormous amounts of energy which rises to the surface with great force and produces violent explosions.

• volcanos
• atmosphere
• deposition

the solid outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle

• lithosphere
• hydrosphere
• weathering

All the water at and near the surface of the earth 97% of which is in oceans

• Hydrosphere
• erosion
• volcanos

A mixture of gases that surrounds a planet or moon.

• atmosphere
• environment
• hydrosphere

Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.

• deposition
• weathering
• erosion

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• divergent boundary
• plate tectonics
• atmosphere