Features of Earth 2
Earth's Moving Continents 2
Forces That Build the Land 2
Forces That Shape Earth 2
Changes in Geology over Time 2
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Together the crust and the rigid part of the mantle.
What is lithosphere?
100
Divergent boundaries create these.
What is seafloor spreading?
100
An instrument or tool that detects, measures, and records the energy of earthquake vibrations at a given location.
What is a seismograph?
100
Erosion caused by Earth's gravity pulling materials from high places to low places.
What is mass wasting?
100
Unicellular and Multicellular organisms are found in this era.
What is the Precambrian era?
200
Areas that rise high above the surrounding land.
What is a mountain?
200
Convergent boundaries create these.
What are mountain ranges?
200
The measure of energy released by an earthquake.
What is magnitude?
200
Decayed or dead plants and animals in the soil.
What is humus?
200
Trilobites were found in this era.
What is the Paleozoic era?
300
Large flat areas of land.
What are plains?
300
Convergent boundaries with subduction create these.
What are volcanoes?
300
A central opening through which magma and gases erupt once reaching Earth's surface.
What is a vent?
300
A mixture of weathered rock, air, water, living things, and humus.
What is soil?
300
Dinosaurs were found in this era.
What is the Mesozoic era?
400
Flat, raised areas of land.
What is a plateau?
400
Transform boundaries create these.
What are earthquakes?
400
The name of magma once it hits the air above Earth's surface.
What is lava?
400
When water creeps into a crack in rock and freezes.
What is frost wedging?
400
Humans are found in this era.
What is the Cenozoic era?
500
Regions into which rivers in the surrounding area flow.
What is a basin?
500
With oceanic plates, convergent boundaries with subduction creates these.
What are ocean trenches?
500
The name of the fault in California that runs from Northern California to Southern California.
What is San Andreas Fault?
500
These made the Great Lakes.
What are glaciers?
500
We can infer that Earth will constantly change because of these.
What are plate tectonics?
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