Renewable/
Non-renewable
Landforms formed by
W.E.D.
Volcanoes and
Earthquakes
Fossils, Soil,
and Trees
NAME THAT
LANDFORM
100
Resources that take little or no time to replenish.
What are renewable resources?
100
A landform formed by a glacier eroding away an area between mountains.
What is a U-shaped valley?
100
The main cause of earthquakes and volcanoes.
What is the shifting of tectonic plates?
100
A trace of an organic life-form that is really old.
What is a fossil?
100
A deep valley with very steep sides, often has a river flowing through it.
What is a canyon?
200
Resources that take a long time (or never) to replenish.
What are non-renewable resources?
200
A landform formed from a river "cutting" through an area between mountains.
What is a V-shaped valley?
200
A process in which volcanoes create new land.
What is lava cooling?
200
The top layer of soil.
What is topsoil.
200
A very tall raised area on the Earth's surface.
What is a mountain?
300
Resources that we can use instead of resources that we are using right now. (Ex: Solar Energy)
What are alternative resources?
300
A landform formed by wind blowing sand into piles/hills.
What is a sand dune.
300
Waves that earthquakes emit.
What are seismic waves?
300
Rock that has not been weathered underneath the other two layers of soil.
What is bedrock?
300
A small body of water surrounded by land.
What is a pond?
400
Non-renewable resources formed by the dead and decayed marine life that have been crushed by the pressure from layers of rock.
What are petroleum and natural gas?
400
A V-shaped valley that is widened and deepened from a river through the middle.
What is a canyon?
400
Two landforms formed by the uplifting of plates.
What are mountains and volcanoes?
400
Broken down rock with organic materials and humus mixed in.
What is soil?
400
Occurs when a river falls off steeply.
What is a waterfall?
500
Non-renewable resources formed from dead plants that have decayed and been solidified by the pressure of rock above.
What is coal?
500
A curve or loop in a river.
What is a meander?
500
Sudden shakes in the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake.
500
The age that a fossil has to be to be classified as a fossil.
What is 10,000 yrs old?
500
A length of water connecting two larger areas of water.
What is a channel?
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