vocabulary
vocab 2
Landforms
Rivers
Volcano/Earthquake
100
A natural shape or feature of Earth's surface
What is landform
100
The landform of sand and other material deposited at the mouth of a river is called a
What is delta
100
Which of Earth's layers contains soft areas on which plates float?
What is mantle
100
Where would you most likely find a delta?
What is near a river's mouth
100
Plate movement causes...
What is earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
200
A ______ is a sheet of ice
What is glacier
200
A sand hill formed and shaped by wind is a
What is sand dune
200
A river carries sand and sediment downstream, is this a form of weathering
What is NO
200
How were the Hawaiian Islands, a chain of volcanoes, formed?
What is plates moving over a hot spot
300
Molten rock beneath Earth's surface is
What is magma
300
A mountain made of lava and ash is
What is volcano
300
A canyon was most likely formed by
What is water erosion
300
During heavy rains, a flooding river sends water over its banks. When this happens the sediment is rich with nutrients it is now called..
What is flood plains
300
How are volcanoes, mountains and earthquakes connected?
What is all result becuase of earth's plate movement
400
The collapse of an underground cave may produce a
What is sinkhole
400
_________ is all the kinds of landforms in a certain place
What is topography
400
What is a moraine?
What is it will have crushed bits of rocks, sand and boulders because it was formed from moving ice.
400
Rapidly flowing rivers do what to the banks and bottom of the river
What is erodes
400
why do volcanoes erupt
What is because of built up pressure
500
A movement of the ground, caused by the sudden release of energy in Earth's crust, is an
What is earthquake
500
A break in Earth's crust is called
What is fault
500
What two plates collide and one plate subducts below and one goes above, what is formed?
What is mountain
500
The Grand Canyon was formed by the
What is Colorado River
500
What causes an earthquake?
What is when two plates rub together
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