Earth's Surface
Land and water features
Sudden Changes to Earth
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
Bonus
100
Almost three fourths of Earth is covered by this.
What is water?
100
This is a plateau under the ocean at the edge of a continent.
What is a continental shelf?
100
This is a sudden movement of the rocks that make up Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
100
This is the movement of weathered rock.
What is erosion?
100
These are the three layers of the Earth.
What is the crust, the mantle, and the core?
200
These are large bodies of salt water.
What are oceans?
200
This canyon that is the deepest part of the ocean floor.
What is a trench?
200
This is a mountain that builds up around an opening in Earth's crust.
What is a volcano?
200
This is the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
200
This is melted rock in the crust and mantle.
What is magma?
300
These are what the seven great areas of land are called on Earth.
What are continents?
300
This is a deep, flat part of the ocean floor, thousands of kilometers wide.
What is an abyssal plain?
300
These four events can suddenly change the land.
What is a volcano, an earthquake, a landslide, and a flood?
300
Running water, wind, rain, and temperature changes are some things that cause this...
What is weathering?
300
This happens when hardened lava builds up over a long period of time.
What is mountains form?
400
These are what land features are called on the Earth.
What are landforms?
400
True of False? A mountain, valley, canyon, plaiin, and island are all examples of landorms.
What is True?
400
This is the rapid movement of rocks and soil down a hill.
What is a landslide?
400
This is the dropping off of weathered rock.
What is deposition?
400
This force can cause a landslide.
What is gravity?
500
A map can show you this.
What is Earth's land and water features?
500
This is land with steep sides and flat top.
What is a plateau?
500
This is when water flows over land that is usually dry.
What is a flood?
500
True or False? Moving water, wind, and glaciers all cause erosion.
What is True?
500
This is a mass of ice that moves slowly across the land.
What is a glacier?
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