Terms
Weathering
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Erosion
General Facts
100
What causes huge waves to flood the land near the shore?
What is a tsunami.
100
What are the two types of weathering?
What is physical and chemical.
100
What is the melted rock inside a volcano called?
What is magma.
100
What is one way to stop erosion near beaches?
What is barriers.
100
What is the laying down of rock and soil called?
What is deposition.
200
What is the rapid downhill movement of rock and soil caused by gravity?
What is a landslide.
200
If the roots of a tree "break up" a sidewalk, what type of weathering would that be?
What is physical weathering.
200
When magma reaches the surface, what is it called?
What is lava.
200
Because of erosion, rock and soil are carried to the mouth of a river and deposited. What is this landform called?
What is a delta.
200
What part of the earthquake is directly above the focus?
What is epicenter.
300
What are rivers of ice that can cause erosion by moving rocks and soil?
What is glaciers.
300
What is an example of chemical weathering?
What is acid rain.
300
What causes the magma in a volcano to rise and erupt.
What is gases.
300
How can water cause erosion?
What is it can run downhill eroding rocks and soil. It can wear away beaches. It can carry rocks and soil to different places.
300
What is a cone-shaped landform that has magma inside?
What is a volcano.
400
What is the process of rock and soil breaking up?
What is weathering?
400
What does rain mix with to form acid rain?
What is carbon dioxide.
400
What causes an earthquake?
What is rocks break and plates move.
400
Because of erosion what are two disasters that may occur?
What are landslides and avalanches.
400
What is a natural feature on earth's surface.
What is a landform.
500
What is the process of soil and rock being "carried away"?
What is erosion.
500
What substance can "break" rocks apart by expanding?
What is water when it turns to ice.
500
The center or "starting point" of an earthquake is called what?
What is the focus.
500
What is the rapid downhill movement of snow?
What is an avalanche.
500
What is a break or crack in Earth's crust where an earthquake may form?
What is a fault.
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