Layers
Landforms
Shaping Forces
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
The rocky outer layer of Earth
What is the crust?
100
Low places between mountains or hills
What are valleys?
100
The huge continent that means "all lands" in Greek
What is Pangaea?
100
These are caused by sudden shifts or movements in the Earth's crust
What are earthquakes?
100
A mountain with an opening
What is a volcano?
200
Part of the crust that rise above the oceans
What are continents?
200
High, flat plains
What are plateaus?
200
The remains or imprints in rock of things that lived long ago
What are fossils?
200
Some earthquakes happen at breaks in the crust of the Earth
What are faults?
200
A magma pocket
What is a magma chamber?
300
Large bodies of salt water on top of the crust
What are oceans?
300
Long, thin islands offshore along a coast
What are barrier islands?
300
The movement of a heated substance
What is a convection current?
300
Most fault lines lie deep within here
What is the crust?
300
When magma escapes through a vent
What is an eruption?
400
The layer jsut below the crust
What is the mantle?
400
Deep, narrow river valleys
What are canyons?
400
These are separate moving parts made up of crust and some upper mantle rock
What are plates?
400
The point on Earth's surface that is directly above the focus
What is the epicenter?
400
An opening in a volcano
What is a vent?
500
An area of solid metal at the center of the Earth
What is the inner core?
500
Grassy plains that cover about half of Africa
What are savannas?
500
When continents slowly move away from each other
What is continental drift?
500
The place in Earth where the energy of an earthquake is first released
What is the focus?
500
Magma that has reached the surface
What is lava?
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