Vocabulary
A natural feature on Earth's surface.
What is landform?
These are lowland areas with higher land around it.
What is a valley?
This is a mountain that forms when lava flows through a crack onto Earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
Movement between 2 plates.
What causes an earthquake?
If you cut open the Earth, you would find four different layers.
What is "how many layers does the Earth have?"
An area that is higher than the land around it.
What is mountain?
These are large, flat landforms with a gently rolling surface.
What are plains?
Volcanoes come in different________and_______.
What is shapes and sizes?
The shaking of Earth's surface caused by movement of rock and crust.
What is an earthquake?
This is Earth's thinnest layer.
What is the crust?
The shape of landforms in an area.
What is topography?
This is a valley with steep walls usually formed by rivers or glaciers.
What is a canyon?
Two types of volcanoes.
What is composite, shield, and cinder cone?
The movement sends out waves of energy through the crust.
What is "what happens during an earthquake?
This sits below the crust and is Earth's thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
The dropping of bits of rock and soil by a river as it flows.
What is deposition?
This is formed at the end of a river.
What is a delta?
Lava underneath earth's surface.
What is magma?
The core is separated into the inner and outer core.
What are the parts of Earth's core?
A large, moving block of ice.
What is glacier?
These were once linked to a mainland and are surrounded by water.
What is an island?
Some volcanoes erupt with lava and others erupt with hot ash.
What is how do volcanoes erupt?
Plates can move toward each other, away from each other, and can slide past each other.
What is " how do plates move?"