Land Features
A mound or ridge of sand.
What is a dune?
The process that breaks down rock and other substances at Earth’s surface.
What is weathering?
The motion or trembling of the ground produced by sudden displacement of rock in the Earth's crust.
What are earthquakes?
What is the crust?
A mountain that forms when molten rock, called magma, is forced to the Earth’s surface.
What is a volcano?
A landform that rises high above the ground.
What is a mountain?
The removal of rock particles by wind, water, ice or gravity.
What is a erosion?
The study of earthquakes.
What is seismology?
The air around you.
What is the atmosphere?
When magma explodes from a volcano and solidifies in the air.
What is Pyroclastic Material?
A deep valley with high, steep sides.
What is a canyon?
It happens when rock is physically broken into smaller pieces.
What is a Mechanical Weathering?
The the point inside the Earth where an earthquake begins.
What is a Focus?
The central part of the Earth, specifically the part made of solid metals.
What is the inner core?
Lava that flows are very hot, thin and runny.
What is a Pahoehoe (Pa-Hoy-Hoy)?
The land along the edge of a body of water.
What is a beach, bank, or shoreline?
Rock breaks down through chemical changes.
What is a Chemical Weathering?
The point on the Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s starting point.
What are Epicenter?
The layer of Earth's interior below the crust.
What is the mantle?
Causes a thick, stiff consistency in volcanoes.
What is Silica?
Flat land that is higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau, or buff?
Soil is the weathered material on Earth’s surface. (Name Four parts of the soil).
What is Humus or Organic layer-Topsoil- Subsoil- Bedrock?
The largest and most active earthquake zone that lies along the plate boundaries surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
What is The Ring of Fire?
All of Earth's liquid and solid water, including oceans, lakes, rivers, glaciers, and ice caps
What is the water or hydrosphere?
The are 3 main kinds of volcanoes
What is a Cinder, Composite and Shield?