Earth Science Part II
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- Sedimentary Rocks
- Rocks formed by sediments compacted and pressed together.
- Water Cycle
- One of Earth's cycles that continuously moves water.
- Weathering
- Chemical and physical changes in rock that cause its surface to break down into smaller pieces.
- Inexhaustible Resource
- A resource that cannot be used up.
- Evaporation
- The process in which a liquid changes to a gas.
- Fossil Fuel
- Source of energy that formed from the remains of plants and animals buried deep in the earth. Examples: coal, natural gas, and petroleum are fossile fuels.
- Fossils
- Remains or traces of a plant or animal that lived millions of years ago.
- Dissolving
- The mixing and forming of a solution with another substance.
- Condensation
- The process in which a gas changes to a liquid.
- Flow
- To move or come forth freely.
- Renewable
- A resource that we will not run out of or thant can be replaced in our lifetime.
- Deposition
- Rock and soil carried by erosion to another location.
- Strata
- Rock layers.
- Nonrenewable Resource
- A resource that cannot be replaced once it is used up or that would take at least 200 years to replace.
- Precipitation
- The water that falls to earth as rain, snow, hail, or sleet.
- Growth
- The process in which something gets larger.
- Erosion
- The "carrying away" of material which slowly changes the shape of the land; ultimately it will be deposited somewhere else.