Vocabulary 12- Earth's changing crust

Fault:  a crack in the crust , whose sides show evidence of motion.

Geologist: a scientist who studies earth.

Lava: magma that reaches earth's surface.

Weathering: the brreaking down of rocks into smaller pieces.

Erosion: the picking up and carring away of pieces of rock.

Deposition: the dropping off of bits of eroded rock.

Meteorite: a chunk of rock from space that strikes a surface ( such as earth or the moon).

Magma: hot, molten  rock deep below earth's surface.