Vocabulary
The Sphere We Live on
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Weathering and Erosion
100
These are curved rock formations formed by a combination of erosional forces
What are arches?
100
This is the outermost layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
100
You know that you are in an earthquake if the ground starts to do this.
What is shake?
100
This type of volcano probably won't erupt again.
What is extinct?
100
These are the two forces that formed the Grand Canyon.
What are weathering and erosion?
200
This is an isolated hill with steep, even sides and a level top.
What is a butte?
200
This is the name of the landform that existed before the continents drifted apart.
What is Pangaea?
200
When this crack in the earth's crust allows the crust to slip, it can cause an earthquake.
What is a fault?
200
This type of volcano probably won't erupt again.
What is a shield volcano?
200
This type of erosion moves the most rock on Earth's surface.
What is water erosion?
300
This word describes the dropping of sand and rock carried by wind or water as it slows down, or from ice that melts.
What is deposition?
300
This is the layer of the earth just under the crust.
What is the mantle?
300
This device is used to measure wave movement through Earth's crust.
What is a seismograph?
300
Volcanoes are useful because the minerals in the ash help to enrich this.
What is the soil?
300
Erosion by a river can do this to its course.
What is change it?
400
This word describes what happens when part of Earth's surface rises above the surrounding land by great forces of heat and pressure deep within Earth.
What is uplift?
400
This is the word that describes plates moving away from each other.
What is divergent?
400
This California fault line is one of the largest in the world.
What is San Andrea's Fault?
400
This type of volcano is cone-shaped and steep.
What is a cinder cone?
400
Northern Utah's U-shaped valleys were formed by these over 1000's of years.
What are glaciers?
500
This word describes the physical breaking up of the rocks on Earth's surface into smaller pieces of rock and sand
What is weathering?
500
This is the area between the inner core and the mantle.
What is the outer core?
500
This is what causes earthquakes, volcanoes and uplift on Earth's surface.
What is movement of Earth's crust?
500
Name two things that erupt out of volcanoes.
What are ash and lava?
500
One of these is not an agent of erosion: glaciers, sea waves, moving water, animals or wind.
What are animals?
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