Vocabulary: Earth's Changing Crust

fault:
 a crackin the cust, whose sides show evidence of motion .

Geologist:

a scientist who studies earth .

magma :

hot, molten rock deep below earth's surface .

lava:

magma than reaches earth's surface.

weathering :
the breakimg down of rocks into smaller pieces.

erosion:

the picking up and caying 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 o the Moon).