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fun landform facts from your book
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Opening in Earth's crust through which melted rock reaches the surface
Volcano
100
Rapid back and forth movement
vibration
100
Name a force that changes Earth's surface slowly
Weathering OR Erosion
100
The breaking down of rocks into smaller particles by wind, waves, water, temperature changes, and plants
weathering
100
These grassy plains cover about half of Africa
savannas
200
One of the seven large land masses on Earth
Continent
200
Place on earth where the energy of an earthquake is first released
focus
200
Mountains, Valleys, and Hills are examples of...
landforms
200
Name one way that the earth changes quickly
volcano OR earthquake
200
What are the world's tallest mountains?
The Himalayas in Asia
300
huge land mass that existed about 200 million years ago
Pangaea
300
hot, flowing rock below Earth's surface
magma
300
New crust forms where magma rises at mid-ocean ridges. This is knows as...
ocean-floor spreading
300
What is a model that describes how rocks form and change
the rock cycle
300
The Grand Canyon was carved by which river?
Colorado River
400
Remains or imprint of an organism that lived long ago, preserved in rock
fossil
400
Crack in the earth's crust
fault
400
Earth's plates are always moving because of...
Earth's rotation on its axis
400
What happens when two plates collide and one slides under the other?
subduction
400
Long Island, New York has these all along the coast
Barrier Islands
500
Instrument for measuring the strength of an earthquake
Seismograph
500
one of the sheets of crust and upper mantle that cover Earth's surface
plate
500
Name the main layers of Earth from the center outward
Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust (core, mantle, crust)
500
This is a very common place on earth for Volcanoes and Earthquakes to occur.
RING OF FIRE!!!
500
What is the most active Volcano in the world?
Kilauea in Hawaii
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