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Chapter 8

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Chapter 8

By: Logan

fold mountian

a mountain made up mostly of rock

fault-block mountian

a mountain made by huge tilted block of rock separated

weathering

the breaking down of rocks into small er

erosion

the picking up and removal of rock particles

soil

a mixture of weathered rock decayed plant and animal matter, living things, air, and water

humus

material in soil formed by the breakdown of plant and animal material

soil horizon

any of the layers of soil from the surface to the bedrock below

groundwater

water that soaks into the soil and rock by collecting in spaces between rock particles

mass wasting

the downhill movement of earth material that has caused by gravtiy

deposition

the dropping off of sediment

glacier

a huge sheet of ice and snow that moves slowly over the land

till

a jumble of many sizes of sediment deposited by a glacier

moraine

a deposit of many sizes of sediment in front of or along the sides of a glacier

mineral

a naturally occurring solid in Earth's crust with a definite structure and compostion 

igneous rock

a rock that forms when hot, liquid lava cools and hardens into a solid 

sedimentary rock

a rock that forms from pieces of other rock that are squeezed or cemented together

metamorphic rock

a rock that forms from another kind of rock that is

rock cycle

rock continually changing from one kind into another  in a never-ending process

superposition

the idea that in a series of rock layers, the bottom layer is the oldest and th layer is the young

relative age

the age of a rock as compared with another rock

geologic column

a listing of earth's rock layers in order from oldest to youngest 

fossil

any trace, imprint, or remains of a living thing preserved in earth's crust

index fossil

the remains of a living thing that was widespread but lived for only a short part of earth's history 

half-life

the time it takes for half the mass of a radioactive element in a rock to break apart, 

absolute age