GeoScience Module 2

6. branch studying the magnetism in rocks from the magnetic field
8. The close relationship of two or more factors that cause them to impact how each other change over time
9. absence of oxygen
10. force process by which rock is broken down
11. rock that survives its passage through the earth's atmosphere
12. waves of energy that travel through earth's layers
13. determining the past or order of events without finding the age
15. stable immobile area of earth's crust that forms the nuclear mass of a continent
17. description on a map of natural and fake features of an area
18. branch of science studying earthquakes
19. different forms of the same element
21. process that builds up the earth

1. true age of rock and fossil
2. two plates are moving toward each other
3. transfer of heat
4. time taken for the isotope to decrease into to half its value
5. region of the earth's crust where tectonic plates meet with the edge of one crustal plate descending below the edge of another.
7. theory explaining the structure of earth's crust
9. presence of oxygen
14. Nonliving factors
16. massive irregular shaped slab of solid rock
20. living factors