Weather
Erosion
Glaciers
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
Freezing and thawing make the cracks bigger until some of the rocks break away.
What is weathering?
100
These contribute to our changing landscape.
What is glaciers, water, and wind?
100
These scrape the rock beneath the glaciers carving valleys into mountainsides.
What is boulders and rocks?
100
Earthquakes, volcanoes, and uplift of Earth's surface is caused by this.
What is movement of Earth's crust?
100
An opening in Earth's crust that allows hot, melted rock, ash, and gases to erupt.
What is a volcano?
200
This type of erosion moves the most rock on Earth's surface.
What is water?
200
The process of moving weathered bits of rock from one place to another?
What is erosion?
200
It takes thousands of years to carve a U-shaped valley.
What is a glacier?
200
A crack in Earth's crust that allows the crust to slip.
What is a fault?
200
Useful because they enrich the soil.
What is volcanoes?
300
The Grand Canyon resulted from two forces.
What is erosion and uplift.
300
Formed by a combination of erosional forces.
What is arches?
300
Thick layers of ice.
What is glaciers?
300
Volcanoes, earthquakes, and uplift create and affect the earth's surface.
What is mountains and valleys?
300
An opening in the earth's crust.
What is volcano?
400
Weathering made it possible for it to collapse.
What is Landscape Arch in Arches National Park.
400
Erosion is the only force acting on a mountain, what happens to its size?
What is it gets smaller?
400
Formed as a result of snow falling on the north side of mountains.
What is a glacier?
400
When the ground starts to shake.
What is a earthquake?
400
Earthquakes and volcanoes can be measured by wave movements through the Earth's crust with this device?
What is seismograph?
500
It took over this many years for the Grand Canyon to form.
What is over 5,000 years.
500
An isolated hill with steep, even sides, and a flat top.
What is a butte?
500
Millions of years ago the United States was covered by this.
What is a sea?
500
Landforms are created by these.
What is earthquakes?
500
Part of the Earth's earth's surface that rises above the surrounding land by great forces of heat and pressure deep within Earth.
What is uplift?
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