Land Features
A ________rises high above the ground
What is a mountain?
What is the slow process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces?
What is weathering?
Forces deep within Earth can cause ocean floors to spread and continents to move.
What are plate tectonics?
Name the volcano that has thick lava that is thrown high into the air and falls as chunks or cinders.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
The rocky, outermost layer of Earth's surface.
What is the crust?
A _______is lower and rounder than a mountain.
What is a hill?
Water, oxygen, acids, carbon dioxide, and living things all cause this.
What is chemical weathering?
This is liquid, molten rock inside the Earth.
What is magma?
Name the volcano that has layers of ash and cinders sandwiched between layers of hardened lava.
What is a composite volcano?
The layer of Earth's interior below the crust.
What is the mantle?
A ______is the low land between hills or mountains.
What is a Valley?
The process of weathered rock moving frm one place to another.
What is erosion?
What is a stationary plume of magma called?
What is a Hot spot?
Name the volcano built by thin, fluid liquid that spreads over a large area.
What is a shield volcano?
The inner most layer of the Earth.
What is the outer core?
A _________is a deep valley with high, steep sides.
What is a canyon?
The process of eroded materials being dropped off in another place is what?
What is deposition?
This forms on land and on the ocean floor.
What is a volcano?
Describe what a geologist does.
Examines rocks to find out about Earth's history and structure.
A ball of solid material at Earth's center.
What is the inner core?
A _____________is flat land that is higher than the land around it.
What is a Plateau?
He was the first person to suggest that the continents are constantly moving.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Name the volcano that is built by thin, fluid liquid that spreads over a large area.
What is a shield volcano?
The Hawaiian islands were formed over __________of years.
What is millions?
Together, the crust and the top of the upper mantle form the what?
What is the Lithosphere?