Weathering and Erosion
An earth process that builds up.
What is a constructive process?
A violent shaking of the earth.
What is an earthquake?
A large rotating storm that originates over water and can come to land.
What is a hurricane?
What is that it is better for withstand storm winds and tornadoes.
It is a natural disaster that can happen after a long period of dry weather.
What is a wildfire.
An earth process that tears down.
What is a destructive process?
A place where magma can escape to the surface of the earth.
What is a volcano?
A repeating series of events.
What is a pattern?
They are the large slabs of rock believed to cause earthquakes.
What are tectonic plates?
The name given to natural structures including mountains, hills, and valleys.
What are landforms.
An earth process that breaks rocks into tiny pieces.
What is weathering?
A large falling of water, mud, and rock that causes a lot of damage.
What is a mudslide?
An extended time of dangerously hot weather.
What is a heatwave?
What is a tsunami?
A large rock structure can become one of these if it expriences more weathering at its bottom than its top.
What is a hoodoo or a mushroom rock?
An earth process that moves tiny pieces of earth away from an area.
What is erosion?
Molten rock beneath the surface of the earth.
What is magma?
A condition defined by a place having too much water for its surface to absorb.
What is a flood?
It is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?
What is a seismograph?
Its the force that pulls mudslides and avalanches down.
What is gravity?
An earth process that adds tiny pieces of earth to an area.
What is deposition?
After an eruption, magma becomes this.
What is lava?
Benjamin Franklin invented this, and it saved lives.
What is a lightning rod?
It is the name of the outermost layer of the planet.
What is the crust?
Its an area of flat plains formed at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?