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13 Cards in this Set
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Erosion |
movement of rock materials from one place to another. |
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Fossil |
preserved remains or traces of a living thing. |
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Physical Weathering |
mechanical processes that break down rocks. |
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Oil formation |
breakdown of organisms' remains into hydrogen and carbon. |
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Canyon |
landform that is the result of changes to the Earth's surface by a river's running water. |
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Coal |
better quality when greater amounts of heat and pressure are present. |
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Fur |
helped woolly mammoth's survive in a cold climate.
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U-shaped Valley |
landform that was formed when changes were made to the Earth's surface from ice. |
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Same fossils found on different continents mean |
that the continents could have once been connected. |
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Index Fossil |
a fossil of a type of organism that lived in many places during a relatively short time span. |
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Rock Salt and Gypsum |
formed by water evaporating and leaving minerals behind. |
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Chemical and Physical Weathering are similiar because |
they both can be caused by water. |
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Wind can change Earth's surface by |
erosion, deposition, and weathering. |
