Landforms
A natural feature of the Earth's surface
landform
Shaking of the earth's surface
earthquake
remains or traces of organisms that lived long ago
fossil
Name the 4 parts of the earth
inner core, outer core, mantle, crust
A landform much higher than the land around it
mountain
The dropping of soil and rock by rivers
deposition
A landform that forms where lava flows
Volcano
what is a large moving mass of ice?
glacier
Which layer of the Earth's layers include the land that makes up the continents and the land under the oceans?
crust
mostly flat land
plain
What is the ring of fire and why is it given that name?
The ring of fire is a circle of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean.
If you were observing a fossil of animal tracks, what might you learn about the animal tracks? where it lived, what foods it might have eaten, what sounds it might have made, how big it might have been
how big it might have been
melted rock
How are deltas and dunes alike
Explain the difference between a shield volcano and cone volcano
shield volcanoes have gently sloping sides and cone volcanoes have steep sides and erupt chunks of rock and lava
The shape of landforms in an area
Topography
What causes a tree to become petrified?
The tree's wood is replaced by rock
Why does the inner core remain solid?
The pressure is very great