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What is molten rock below earth's surface?
Magma
How do metamorphic rocks form?
Heat & pressure
Where do volcanoes and earthquakes occur?
Along plate boundaries
What is the outermost layer of Earth that is broken into plates?
Crust
True or False: Water expands when it freezes
True
What is a run-off?
rain water that moves across the land
The continuous movement of water on the Earth and all of its processes is called the ______
water cycle or hydrologic cycle
What is the relationship between the Sun and the ocean?
Water absorbs a large amount of heat- it moderates the climate
What is groundwater?
Groundwater is the water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock.
Water that is underground in permeable soil and rock's pores and fractures, on top of the layer of impermeable rock, forms when precipitation seeps into the ground.
Groundwater
What is Filtration?
The action of filtering for separating fluid and particles. For water, filtration indicates the process of removing unwanted pollutants from water, such as bact
The effect when the atmosphere traps the heat by radiating the heat back to the Earth, caused by the accumulation of greenhouse gas, causing global warming.
Greenhouse Effect
What are Aquifers?
Layers of permeable underground rock saturated with water; an essential source of freshwater. However, once it runs dry in the future, it will require thousands
What does Potable mean?
Safe to drink; drinkable.
What is a fossil fuels
Fuels like coal, crude oil, and natural gas, naturally formed from buried, fossilized dead plants and animals.
The main source of energy on Earth
The Sun
