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2 Types of Valleys
Fast or Slow Changes
Vocabulary
Formations
100
This is the number of types of volcanoes on the Earth.
What is three types?
100
A U-shaped valley was formed by this mass.
What is a glacier?
100
This can cause the Earth to shift several feet in a few seconds.
What is an earthquake?
100
This force pulls toward the center of the Earth and assist with erosion.
What is gravity?
100
This is a strip of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
200
This is the molten rock found beneath the Earth's surface.
What is magma?
200
This can often be found at the bottom of a V-shaped valley.
What is a river/water?
200
These are two causes of quick changes to the Earth's surface.
What is an earthquake and volcano?
200
This is a deep gorge in rock that is caused by moving water.
What is a canyon?
200
This is an opening in the Earth's crust through which ash and gas are ejected.
What is a volcano?
300
This is the layer of the Earth that the magma is found in.
What is the mantle?
300
It take this amount of time for a glacier to form a U-shaped valley.
What is thousands of years?
300
This quick change to the Earth has helped in the formation of lakes.
What is an earthquake?
300
This is a vertical raising of the Earth's surface that is due to plate tectonics.
What is uplift?
300
This is a flat-topped hill with steep sides and formed by wind erosion.
What is a butte?
400
These are three formations made by uplift and earthquakes.
What are mountains, volcano, plateau, valleys, hills, and buttes/mesas?
400
This valley is formed with the movement of water.
What is V-shaped valley?
400
This is the speed of wind weathering effects on a butte after 15-20 years.
What is slow or very little change?
400
This is another name for the path or course of a river.
What is a channel?
400
This is a narrow strip of land that connects two large areas of land.
What is an isthmus?
500
This is the most common type of volcano that is very tall erupting with thin lava, then exploding and erupting with thick lava.
What is a composite volcano?
500
The formation of a valley is considered this type of change.
What is a slow change?
500
A earthquake can create this shift/crack in a contiuous rock very quickly.
What is a fault?
500
This is a name for the structure or arrangement of something.
What is a formation?
500
This is a piece of land that forms at the mouth of a river, where the river flows into an ocean, sea or large body of water.
What is a delta?
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