Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Essential Questions
Brain busters
100
The removal of soil and rock by wind or water.
What is erosion?
100
The shaking of the earth's surface.
What is an earthquake?
100
Compare and contrast a landform and a mudslide.
Mrs. Long will determine if your answer is correct.
100
Seismographs, tidal gauges, sensors, and satellites are used for this.
What is to study changes in the earth's surface?
200
A large amount of dry soil and rock that slides down a steep slope.
What is a landslide?
200
A crack in the earth's crust?
What is a fault?
200
Name the four layers of the earth.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
200
This causes the Ring of Fire to have so many volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is the position of plates?
300
A large mountain of snow, soil, and rock that slides down the side of a mountain.
What is an avalanche?
300
A series of large ocean waves that are caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption.
What is a tsunami?
300
This is found under the earth's crust.
What is the mantle?
300
An avalanche can change a landform by.....
Mrs. Long will determine if your answer is correct.
400
A large amount of wet soil and rock that slide down a steep slope.
What is a mudslide?
400
A person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
400
This comes out of a volcano when it erupts.
What is lava, hot ash, and gases?
400
Glaciers erode the land how (quickly or gradually)?
What is gradually?
500
An opening in the earth's crust that spews out lava, hot ash, and gases during an eruption.
What is a volcano?
500
Top layer of the earth's surface.
What is the crust?
500
How an earthquake could change a river.
What is drain it?
500
Name three types of volcanos.
What is active, dormant, extinct?
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