Landforms and Oceanforms
A fan shaped mass of mud and other sediment that forms where a river enters a large body of water.
What is a delta?
These agents of weathering break rocks into pieces.
What are wind, water, ice, gravity, and plants?
These are parts of what natural land feature: magma chamber, conduit, and crater.
What is a volcano?
Places where earthquakes are most likely to occur.
What are faults?
This calculates the time it takes for sound waves to travel to the ocean floor and back to the surface.
What is sonar technology?
A steep sided valley formed by the erosional force of running water.
What are canyons?
Mechanical and chemical
What are the two types of weathering?
List the benefits of a volcanic eruption.
What are creates new land, creates fertile soil, and creates new rocks that plants and animals can use?
Rapid shaking of the Earth.
What is an earthquake?
Light energy travels by __________.
What are waves?
The difference between a plain and a plateau is ______.
What is elevation?
The process of water wearing away the land.
What is erosion?
This is most likely to form at a tectonic plate boundary.
What is a volcano?
This usually causes an earthquake.
What is movement of underground rock / movement of tectonic plates?
Light waves are this type.
What is transverse?
The deepest feature on the ocean floor.
What is a trench?
This is the most important agent of erosion and deposition.
What is water?
Lava deposits that have gently-sloping sides
What are shield cones/volcano?
This is a dramatic Earth force that causes geological change.
What is an earthquake?
These type of waves are longitudinal.
What are sound waves?
The type of map used to show relief and features of the Earth's surface and the type of lines use on this map to show elevation.
What are topographic maps and contour lines?
Moving air, rushing water, blowing sand, and plant roots are all examples of this type of weathering.
What is mechanical weathering?
List some ways that scientist are trying to more accurately predict volcanic eruptions.
What are measuring seismic waves, measuring gases, and determining lava movement?
The movement of continental plates cause ___________ and these usually cause ______________.
What are earthquakes and tsunamis?
This is the measurement term used to determine the height of waves.
What is amplitude?