The Earth
Mountain Landscapes
Erosional Landforms
Depositional Landforms
Miscellaneous
100
A part of the Earth’s surface that consists of a variety of geographical features that are characteristic of an area.
Landscape
100
What the process of tectonic plates are pushing together is called.
Convergance
100
The main landform that makes up the Twelve Apostles.
Stack
100
A pebbly or sandy shore, especially by the sea.
Beach
100
What 'tsunami' means in Japanese.
Harbour wave
200
A natural geographical feature or shape that appears on the Earth’s surface.
Landform
200
What the process of tectonic plates being pulled apart is called.
Divergance
200
Through erosion, stacks can turn into...
Stumps
200
The rush of seawater up the beach after the breaking of a wave is called...
Swash
200
Walls that jut out from a beach into the sea.
Groyne
300
The topmost layer of the earth, broken into tectonic plates.
Crust
300
Mountains that are created when cracks in the Earth’s crust known as faults force blocks of land upwards.
Block mountains
300
As the soft rock of arches is eroded by the destructive waves, the rock above the arches eventually falls into the sea leaving behind...
Stacks
300
A spit connecting an island to the mainland is called...
Tombolo
300
The types of waves that erode and destroy sections of coast are known as:
Destructive waves
400
The very centre of the Earth.
Inner core
400
The modern day city that Mt Vesuvius is located near.
Napoli
400
As waves erode the back of a cave they may penetrate right through the headland and produce...
Arch
400
The movement of material along a coast by waves which approach at an angle to the shore but wash out directly away from it.
Longshore drift
400
The tectonic plate that Australia is located on.
Australian plate
500
The layer below the crust.
Mantle
500
The Himalayas were created by the convergance of the Indo-Australian plate and which plate?
Eurasian
500
Some caves can be hundreds of metres long. Waves entering long caves can wear away the roof, causing it to collapse and forming a...
Gorge
500
Sand dunes that move inland are called...
Blowout dunes
500
The gradual movement of soil, rocks and earth down a gentle slope.
Soil creep
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