Vocabulary
Physical Features on Earth's surface
Landforms
A large hole in the ground that opens suddenly.
Sinkhole
Much of Earth's surface is made of _____________
Rock
______________ are Earth's highest mountains.
Himalayas
water, waves, wind, ice, volcanic eruptions
What are thick sheets of ice?
Glaciers
The process of breaking rock into silt, sand, clay, and sediment
Weathering
____________ is an important agent of weathering and also a chief agent of erosion.
Water
The Earth's crust is made up of _______ moving plates.
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How does wind erosion change land forms?
moves sand/sediment, forms sand dunes
the instrument used to measure seismic waves of an earthquake
Seismograph
Deposition of sediment from an underwater volcano.
Island
A _________________ is when a glacier stops moving forward and deposits the sediments it has been carrying with it.
Terminal Moraines
Name the 3 layers of the Earth: ______, ______, and _______. The _______________ is the hottest layer.
Crust
Mantle
Core
Core
Continental Drift-
What is the name of the super continent?
Theory of how Earth's continents moved over its surface
Pangea
Remains or traces of past life found in some rocks.
Fossils
The depositions of sediment at the mouth of a river.
Delta
How do we know that life on Earth was different different in the past?
What might you infer about the surface of Earth 200 million years from now?
Scientists found fossil of the same species on different continents suggestion that the continents were once joined.
The continents will not be in the same place.
Why is the area around the Pacific plate known as the "Ring of Fire?"
Many volcanoes are located at the plate boundaries
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
weathering breaks rock into silt, sand, clay, and sediment.
The scientists who study fossils to learn about line in the past.
Paleontologists.
A mountain formed by lava and ash.
Volcano
Where are the youngest rocks in the Grand Canyon located?________
Where are the oldest rocks in the Grand Canyon located? __________
Top
Bottom
Eroding force of a river channel forms a/an _______________.
Oxbow Lake
Name 3 ways plates move and what happens when each move:
Collide: mountains rise and volcanoes develop
Pull Art: valleys with volcanoes develop
Scrape and slide: Earthquakes