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19 Cards in this Set
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deposition |
process of laying down materials such as rock and soil |
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pollutant |
an unwanted substance added to land water or air |
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renewable resource |
a type of energy resource that can be replaced |
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inexhaustible resource |
a type of energy resouce that wont run out |
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nonrenewable resouse |
a type of energy resource that cannot be replaced at all or cannot bereplaced as fast as people use it |
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constructive forces |
forces that build new features on earths surface |
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erosion |
the movment of materials from a place |
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organic matter |
all living materials that were once alive |
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destructive forces |
forces that wear away or tear down features on earths surface |
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humas |
the decaying material in soil |
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plate |
a section of the lithosphere |
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inorganic matter |
all the nonliving materials in the soil |
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weathering |
a slow process that breacks rocks into sediments |
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soil |
a mixture of nonliving and decayed materials from organisms |
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mineral |
a nonliving naturally occurring solid that has its own regular arrangment of particals in it |
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igneous |
rocks that form when melted rock cools and hardens |
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rock cycle |
a process which rocks are constantly being formed and dystroyed |
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sedimentary |
rocks that form when layers of materials and rock particals settle on top of each other and then harden |
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metamorphic |
rocks formed inside earth from otherrocks under heat and pressure |
