Each of the seven great land areas on Earth is called a ______________________.
What is continents?
100
A mountain is an example of a ____________________.
What is a landform?
100
The sudden movement of rocks in Earth's crust may cause an _________________.
What is an earthquake?
100
The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces is called __________________.
What is weathering?
100
A mountain that builds up around an opening in Earth's crust is a ___________________.
What is a volcano?
200
A deep valley with steep sides and river flowing through it is a ____________________.
What is a canyon?
200
Rivers, streams, glaciers, and ponds are water features made up of _____________________.
What is fresh water?
200
Melted rock below Earth's crust is called _________________.
What is magma?
200
The movement of weathered rock by such things as wind, moving water, and glaciers is known as ______________.
What is erosion?
200
Earth's deepest, hottest layer is the _______________.
What is the core?
300
This is wide and flat and stretches thousands of miles out, under the ocean.
What is an abyssal plain?
300
Compare the layers of the earth to an egg.
What is the crust is like the shell, the mantle is like the white part and the core is like the yolk?
300
In what way can a volcano create landforms?
What is by oozing lava that creates new land?
300
Landslides are caused by ___________________________.
What is the pull of gravity on loose rocks and soil?
300
One of these causes weathering: dead things, rocks, wind, or soil
What is wind?
400
This is land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
400
This landform is very similar to a trench.
What is a canyon?
400
These can be caused by heavy rains and melting snow.
What is a flood?
400
Weathering and erosion happen ________________.
What is slowly?
400
Name two things that change the land quickly. Name two things that change the land slowly.
What is an earthquake, a volcano, a tsunami, a hurricane, a landslide, a flood or a tornado? What is weathering, erosion, or a glacier?
500
Explain an island to someone that has never seen one.
What is it is land surrounded on all sides by water?
500
Almost three fourths of the earth is covered by large bodies of salt water called _____________________.
What is oceans?
500
Violent shaking, buildings collapsing, roads cracking and bridges falling are examples of what can happen from this sudden change.
What is an earthquake?
500
Name two things that can cause weathering.
What is running water, wind, rain, temperature changes (freezing and thawing), trees roots, animals and humans?
500
If you were visiting a place where the landforms were 20% plains, 10% mountains, and 70% coast, would you bring your snow skis and winter gear? Why or why not?
What is no because you will spend most of your time at the beach?