Cognitive Content Dictionaries
A deep crack, usually in a glacier
What is a CREVASSE?
Continuous pushing on an object.
What is PRESSURE?
The tool on a map that shows directions.
What is the MAGMA chamber?
This is the process of water or wind carving out rock and soil.
What is EROSION?
A natural low land surrounded by hills or mountains.
What is a VALLEY?
A crack in the Earth's surface where the plates move.
What is a FAULT?
This type of geological event is mostly seen near the arctic and antarctic regions.
What are GLACIERS?
Examples of formations include the San Andreas Fault and the Appalachian Mountains.
What are EARTHQUAKES?
Buoy warnings let people know about this geological event.
What are TSUNAMIS?
What is a TIMESCALE?
A crater formed by a volcanic eruption.
What is a CALDERA?
This is located along the Western coast of North America and the Eastern coast of Asia and Australia.
What is the RING OF FIRE?
These move about three feet per day.
What are GLACIERS?
This occurs when plates in the Earth move around.
What are EARTHQUAKES?
Describes something that happens suddenly and unexpectedly
Marked by continuous change.
What is DYNAMIC?
This ocean is south of Africa.
What is the SOUTHERN OCEAN?
These are two types of volcanic flows.
What are explosive and effusive?
These islands were created by volcanoes.
What is HAWAII?
Water moving toward shore that is usually higher than the surface of the water.
What is a WAVE?
A cone shaped mountain with lava and ash erupting slowly or abruptly.
What is a VOLCANO?
This geological event often takes place on the coast of Asia.
What are TSUNAMIS?
This happens when soil erodes underground.
What is a SINKHOLE?
Many of these are found in Florida.
What are SINKHOLES?