Landforms
Plates
Movements
Rocks
Earth
100
The layer just below the crust.
What is the mantle.
100
the remains or imprints in rock of things that lived long ago.
What is Fossils.
100
Hot liquid rock.
What is magma.
100
rocks are formed, worn down, and then formed again.
What is the rock cycle
100
Breaks rocks down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering.
200
natural shapes or features of Earth's surface.
What is Landforms.
200
This means "all lands" in Greek.
What is Pangaea
200
This is what a volcano does.
What is erupts
200
hot, flowing rock will cool to form.
What is igneous rock.
200
When sediments stop and settle in different places.
What is deposition.
300
deep, narrow river valleys.
What is Canyons.
300
When one plate slides up over the other plate.
What is subduction
300
Some earthquakes happen at breaks in the crust.
What is a fault.
300
sediments are pressed together, or compacted.
What is sedimentary rocks.
300
a ridge of glacial till is a land form called?
What is a moraine.
400
long, thin islands offshore along a coast.
What is Barrier islands
400
As the magma cools, it hardens and forms new crust.
What is ocean-floor spreading.
400
The point on Earth's surface that is directly above the focus.
What is epicenter.
400
rocks are heated and pressed.
What is metamorphic rock.
400
What are the three causes of erosion?
What is wind, water, and gravity.
500
parts of the crust that rise above the oceans.
What is Continents.
500
When two plates go toward each other and lift.
What is convergent.
500
The seismologist who developed a different scale to measure earthquakes.
Who is Charles Richter.
500
Metamorphic rock can change into what?
What is magma
500
When weathered rock and soil are moved downhill by gravity.
What is Mass movement.
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