Vocabulary
Landforms
Changes to Earth's Landforms
Earth's Structure
Earthquakes & Volcanoes
100
All the kinds of landforms in a certain place.
What is topography?
100
A landform that is much higher than the surrounding land.
What is a mountain?
100
The natural process of wearing awar rocks by natural means.
What is weather?
100
Is made up of four layers.
What is Earth's structure?
100
Earth's crust and uppermost mantle are divided into sections called...
What are plates?
200
Hill of sand, made and shaped by the wind.
What is a sand dune?
200
Like a mountain but not as high.
What is a hill?
200
Name a landform caused by wind.
What is a sand dune?
200
Four layers of Earth's structure.
What are the crust, mantle, inner core and outer core.
200
Mountain made of lava, ash, or other material from eruptions.
What is a volcano?
300
A mountain made of lava, ash, or other material from eruptions.
What is a volcano?
300
A large, flat landform with little relief.
What is a plain?
300
Name a landform caused by moving water.
What is a canyon?
300
The mantle is made of this.
What is solid rock and some soft rock?
300
Movement of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy in Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
400
Molten rock under Earth's surface.
What is magma?
400
Long, low hills formed by materials carried by a glacier.
What is a moraine?
400
Deltas are most likely to occur here.
What is the mouth of a river?
400
Magma mostly makes this layer.
What is the outer core?
400
Scientists classify earthquakes by
What is magnitude?
500
A natural land shape or feature.
What is a landform?
500
A deep valley with steep sides.
What is a canyon?
500
A large hole that can open suddenly.
What is a sinkhole?
500
Is it true that scientists dig through the layer's of the Earth to study and observe them.
What is NO!!!
500
This type of volcano is made up of alternating layers of lava and ash.
What is a compostie volcano?
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