Vocabulary
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What is a device that measures earthquakes called?
What is a seismograph
100
What is the mantle made of?
What is magma
100
What tells you the elevation of a landform from its lowest point to its highest point?
What is relief
100
What plate is the United States on?
What is the North American plate
100
What is another name for mud, sand or silt?
What is sediment
200
What is an enormous moving piece that form's earth's crust?
What is tectonic plate
200
List the 3 layers of earth
What is core, mantle, crust
200
True or False: The ocean floor has landforms similar to that above water
What is true
200
What is magma called once it has reached earth's surface?
What is lava
200
What can form in a mountainous areas that receives frequent snowfall and ice?
What is a glacier
300
part of earth that is made up of all the water elements
What is hydosphere
300
What protects earth from radiation and space debris
What is the atmosphere
300
River flow into what?
What is an ocean or a sea
300
Folds or cracks on earth's surface are called?
What are faults
300
Chemical weathering is more likely to heppen in what type of climate?
What is warm
400
What is the physical or chemical process that changes the characteristics of rock on earth's surface
What is weathering
400
Which layer of earth is made of the crust?
What is the lithosphere
400
What is the continous circulation of water between the atmosphere, the oceans, and the earth?
What is the hydrologic cycle
400
How many plates come together at the Ring of Fire?
What is 8
400
what are the three types of erosion?
What is water, wind, glacial
500
What is wind-nlown silt and clay sediment that produces very fertile soil?
What is loess
500
What makes up the biosphere?
What is the atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere.
500
Deposits of coral skeleton can form...?
What is an island
500
Name the 3 types of boundaries that mark plate movement
What is divergent, convergent, and transform
500
What are the 3 types of WATER erosion?
What is transport, abrasion, and dissolving
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