Destructive Processes
Constructive Processes
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Weathering and Erosion
Vocabulary
100

What are destructive processes?

What are the processes that break down earth's surface?

100

What are constructive processes?

What are the processes that build up earth's surface?

100
Name the four layers of Earth.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.
100
List three ways landforms change?
What is through weathering, erosion, and plants growing into cracks of a cliff.
100

How were the Hawaiian Islands formed?

What is a volcanic eruption.

200

What is weathering?

What is the breaking down of rock into smaller pieces.

200

What is deposition?

What is dropping off of sediments?

200

What do you call a mountain made of lava, ash, or other materials from eruptions?

What is a volcano?

200

What is the difference between weathering and erosion?

Erosion is the process of moving sediment by wind, moving water, or ice. Weathering is the process of breaking down rocks by natural means.

200

What do you call a break in Earth's crust?

What is a fault.

300

How can wind erode away land?

What is wind picks up sediment and carries it away

300

What landform is created by the wind?

What are sand dunes?

300

How can volcanoes be destructive?

What is the lava burns homes, animals, and vegetation? 

300

What is an example of weathering that occurs in driveways?

Weathering occurs when plant roots grow in cracks causing the concreate to split

300
What do you call a hill of sand, made and shaped by the wind?
What is a sand dune.
400
What are three examples of destructive processes?

What is a volcanic eruption, weathering, and erosion?

400

How can volcanoes be constructive?

What is creating new landforms?

400
What do you call a movement of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy in Earth's crust?
What is an earthquake.
400
Erosion can cause lanslides. How do landslides occur?
Landslides occur after heavy rains or earthquakes. They occur on mountainsides or on hills.
400
What are deep valleys with steep sides?
What is a canyon
500

What do divergent plate boundaries create?

What are volcanoes?

500

What landforms are created by convergent plate boundaries?

What are mountains?

500
What causes both earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?
What is plate movement.
500

What famous landform was created from water erosion?

What is the Grand Canyon.

500
How are canyons formed? What is the name of one major canyon found in the United States?
What is they are formed from water erosion. An example is the Grand Canyon.
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