Landforms
This land form rises high above the land around it
What is a mountain
This mountain chain is an example of a fault-block mountain.
What is the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
This is an opening in the Earth's crust
What is a volcano
This is a sudden shaking of Earth's crust
What is an earthquake
This happens over time where rocks will slowly be worn away or weathered.
What is weathering
What is a hill
This is what can happen when one plate rubs past another.
What is a Shear
This is the area where most volcanoes can be found in the world.
What is the ring of fire.
This is the line where Earthquakes happen
What is a fault line
This type of weathering is caused by temperature changed, pushing, pulling or rubbing.
What is Physical Weathering
This is the low land between hills or mountains
What is a valley
This mountain chain is an example for folded mountains.
This happens when melted rock, ash and gases pour out of a volcano
What is an eruption
This is the spot where the slipping begins during an earth.
What is the focus
This type of weathering is when chemicals break down rocks.
What is chemical weathering
This is a deep valley with high, steep sides.
What is a canyon
This is the squeezing or a pushing together of the crust
What is compression
This is the type of Volcano that has recently erupted
What is an active volcano
These kind of waves move the fastest and they go back and forth as rocks squeeze together and spread apart
What are P (Primary) waves
This is the movement of weathered rock.
What is Erosion
This is a flat land higher than the land around it.
This is Wegener's idea that the continents slowly moved to where they are today.
What is Continental drift
This chain of islands is a chain of volcanic mountains
The Hawaiian Islands
What is the tool that detects and measures earthquake waves.
What is a seismometer
This is the movement of a large amount of rock and soil down a slope.