Vocabulary
Slow Land Form Change
Quick Land Form Change
Chapter 7 Concepts
Cause and Effect
100
An opening in Earth's surface from which lava flows
What is a volcano
100
Causes of weathering
What is wind, water and ice
100
Earthquakes, volcanoes and floods
What is type of quick landform changes
100
What causes an earthquake
What is movement in earth's plates
100
What is the effect of weathering
What is rock splitting
200
A large amount of water that covers normally dry land
What is a flood
200
What charateristic of water makes it possible for ice to break rock?
What is water expands when it freezes
200
the place in the United States where you would the most earthquakes
What is California
200
What is a glacier
What is a huge block of ice
200
What effects does an erupting volcano have on land
What is it covers part of the land with lava, ash and rock
300
The movement of weathered rock and soil
What is erosion
300
Where does the soil come from that the rivers are carrying?
What is it is washed away from the banks along the river
300
Changes the land the fastest
What is an earthquake
300
What must happen before rock can be eroded
What is weathering
300
What is the effect of glaciers
What is make valleys wider or creates hills and ridges
400
The shaking of Earth's surface caused by movement in Earth's crust
What is an earthquake
400
Wind erosion blows sand into huge mounds called this
What is sand dunes
400
This causes rock and soil to slide downhill
What is a landslide
400
How does a location of a river or stream change
What is soil and rock building up along the banks
400
What is the effect of an earthquake under water
What is a tsumani
500
The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces
What is weathering
500
Very slow movement of rocks and soil
What is creep
500
Name one volvano that has changed earth's surface
What is Mount St. Helen, Kilauea, Mount Pinatubo
500
What landform would form if the rock layers that make up a plain were pressed together very hard from both sides
What is a mountain
500
What causes a flood
What is so much rain falls that rivers and streams cannot hold all the water
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