The Earth
Earth's Layers
Glaciers
Weathering and Erosion
Bonus
100
Mountains, plateaus, and plains are examples of this. (4)
What is a landform?
100
This is the breaking and cracking apart of rocks. (4)
What is weathering?
100
What landforms do glaciers create?
What are U-Shaped valleys
100
Freezing and thawing are two types of (3)
What is physical erosion?
100
Large piles of wind blown sand are called this. (4)
What are dunes?
200
Volcanoes erupt through these openings in the earth's surface. (4)
What is a vent or crater?
200
This is the layer of the Earth that is solid iron and it is also the hottest.
What is the inner core
200
The area that the glacier stops moving. (4)
What is terminus?
200
Name 3 rapid changes to Earth's crust. (4)
What is a volcanic eruption, rock slides, avalanche, and earthquake?
200
I am a hardened part or mark of a living animal or plant that died a long time ago. (3)
What is a fossil?
300
A volcanic mountain is made from this. (4)
What is lava?
300
This is the thinnest layer of the Earth
What is the "crust"?
300
Rocks, clay, sand and pebbles (3)
What is glacial till?
300
When waves scrape rocks together this forms. (3)
What is sand?
300
What is the largest form of erosion. (3)
What is a glacier?
400
These occur when two tectonic plates slide past each other. (4)
What are earthquakes?
400
This molten rock is found under the Earth's crust. (4)
What is magma?
400
The mounds at the sides and end of a glacier (4)
What are moraines?
400
What landform is completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
400
A deep crack in Earth's crust. (4)
What is a fault?
500
This is a landform that was carved by a river. (3)
What is a canyon?
500
When a continental plate and an ocean plate come together what could occur? (3)
What is a volcanic eruption?
500
Old layers of ice makes this in regions where snow does not melt away (4)
What is a glacier?
500
The movement of rocks from one place to another. (3)
What is erosion?
500
Grass and trees are crops that are good at slowing this down. (4)
What is preventing erosion?
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