How does Earth's surface wear away?
How do weathered materials move?
How can Earth's surface change fast?
Vocab
True / False
100
Florida is an example of this kind of landform.
A peninsula
100
A canyon is a landform caused by what?
Erosion.
100
A sudden movement that causes the earth's crust to shake - with the most dangerous part near the epicenter.
An earthquake
100
The point of earth's surface directly above an earthquake.
What is epicenter
100
Magma is what flows out of a Volcano.
False. Magma is inside a volcano. Lava is what flows outside a volcano.
200
What do we call rocks in earth's crust slowly being broken apart into smaller pieces over a long period of time is called.
Weathering
200
How do plants help to stop erosion?
They hold the soil in with their roots.
200
Magma being forced up to the Earth's surface creates this.
A volcano
200
a break or crack in earth's surface where Earth's crust can move.
Fault
200
A delta is formed by deposition.
True
300
What is the outer layer of Earth's surface called?
The Earth's crust
300
What is the movement of weathered pieces of rock called?
Erosion
300
Earthquakes and Volcanoes usually occur near here.
Where the plates meet; a fault line
300
a cone-shaped landform with an opening at the top.
volcano
300
Plates moving along faults cause earthquakes.
True
400
(TRUE OR FALSE) Melting Ice is an example of physical weathering.
False. Freezing ice causes weathering.
400
What causes a shoreline to erode away? ice, wind, or gravity
Wind
400
What causes loose material to move DOWNHILL to produce LANDSLIDES and AVALANCHES
Gravity
400
the movement of weathered pieces or particles of rock by water, ice, or wind.
Deposition
400
Taller volcanoes produce more powerful eruptions.
false. Size is not a factor on power.
500
Give an example of what causes physical weathering.
water, wind, or ice
500
Rain mixing with carbon dioxide causes what?
Acid Rain
500
(TRUE OR FALSE) Earth's surface always takes a long time to change.
FALSE (Earthquake, Landslides. ETC)
500
A natural feature on Earth's surface
Landform
500
Earth's crust covers 2/3rds of its surface.
false. The crust is all over earth.
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