Earth's Landforms
Natural land shape or feature.
What is landform?
An area of new land at the mouth of a river.
Layers of the earth in order.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
A mountain made of lava, ash, or other materials from eruptions.
What is a volcano?
A sand hill formed and shaped by wind.
What is a sand dune?
All kinds of landforms in a certain area.
What is topography?
Large hole created by the collapse of land above an underground cave.
What is a sinkhole?
Earth's crust and uppermost mantle are divided into sections
What is plates?
Tallest landforms on earth.
How to tell whether or not a rock has been weathered?
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Long, low hill formed by materials carried by a glacier.
What is a moraine?
Farmers plant these to reduce the effects of weathering and erosion
What are cover crops?
Point on earth's surface directly above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
Three types of volcanos
What are composite, cinder cone, and shield?
A shield volcano is created by...
What is a cone built up by repeated lava flowing.
What is a glacial groove?
In what way(s) do plants weather and erode rocks.
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Scale used to classify an earthquakes magnitude, or the amount of energy it releases.
What is the richter scale?
The cause of earthquakes and volcanos.
What is plate movement?
This layer of the earth is the thickest.
What is mantle?
Landform most likely to be produced from running water over a long period of time.
What is a canyon?
Long Island New York was created by this
What is a glacier?
The difference between magma and lava.
What is magma is underneath the ground/inside a volcano, while lava is on the surface?
Most likely order of natural processes to occur that break down rocks/landforms. (There are three of them.)
What are weathering, erosion, and depostion?
What is a fault?