Earth's Makeup
Earth's Surface
Break it down
Build it up
Truly Trivial
100
Earth's rocky outer layer is called this.
What is the crust?
100
Most of the water on Earth is this kind of water.
What is salt water?
100
Rocks on Earth's surface are broken into pieces by process of what.
What is Weathering?
100
This is the dropping, or releasing, of sediments that have been moved from one place to another.
What is deposition?
100
The largest canyon in the United States.
What is the Grand Canyon?
200
This is a map that shows the shape of surface features and their elevations, or heights above sea level.
What is a topographic map?
200
This covers most of the Earth's surface.
What is salt water?
200
The carrying away of sediments by moving water, wind, or moving ice is called this.
What is Erosion?
200
Melted rock below Earth's surface is called what.
What is magma?
200
The remains of dead corals for a what.
What is a reef?
300
Lines that connect points on a map that have the same elevation is called this.
What is contour lines?
300
The flat landforms along an ocean or large lake.
What are beaches?
300
Mechanical weathering is the breaking of larger rocks into smaller pieces of rock called what.
What is sediment?
300
A low plain that forms where a river enters an ocean.
What is a delta?
300
Hawaii was formed from this.
What is underwater volcano
400
These are the tallest landforms on the Earth.
What are mountains?
400
The floor of a river valley on either side of a river.
What is flood plain?
400
In this process, rocks change into other materials.
What is chemical weathering?
400
When a river moves across wide, flat regions, the river begins to wind in smooth curves called what.
What is meanders?
400
Mountains continue to grow from this.
What are plates moving together?
500
The edges of a continent are called this.
What is continental shelf?
500
The vast area of the deep ocean floor is known as the what.
What is abyssal plain?
500
These are narrow s that intoections of land that jut out into the ocean.
What are headlands?
500
Shield cones often form on this.
What is ocean floor?
500
The Nile River flows this way, which makes it from unique.
What is from South to North?
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