Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
Misc.
Vocabulary
100
The process that breaks down rocks on Earth's surface.
What is weathering?
100
The transportation of broken down rocks through water, wind, ice, etc.
What is erosion?
100
The formation from the build up of sediment over time near the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
100
The layer of the Earth that contains soft areas on which plates float.
What is the mantle?
100
A mountain made of lava, ash, or other materials from eruptions.
What is a valcano?
200
How the Grand Canyon was formed.
What is water erosion?
200
This is the largest contributor to erosion.
What is water?
200
A landform containing bits of crushed rock, sand, or boulders.
What is a moraine?
200
This area of molten rock formed the chain of volcanoes in Hawaii.
What is a hot spot?
200
A large, thick sheet of ice.
What is a glacier?
300
A shaking of the ground, caused by a sudden release of energy in Earth's crust.
What an earthquake?
300
A landform created by a glacier that contains rocks, sand, and clay carried by erosion and then deposited together.
What is a moraine?
300
This landform that is constantly changing due to wind blowing and depositing sand.
What is sand dune?
300
A break in the Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
400
A large hole formed when the roof of a cave collapses.
What is a sinkhole?
400
A tall, flat-topped rock feature found in the Southwest that is created by running water eroding the sides of the rock.
What is a mesa?
400
The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
400
A natural land shape or feature.
What is a landform?
500
Disintegration of rocks into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical weathering?
500
These are all agents of erosion.
What are water, ice, wind, plants, chemical changes, and animals/humans?
500
Molten rock that reaches Earth's surface.
What is lava?
500
The four layers of the Earth.
What are the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust.
500
All the kinds of landforms in a certain place.
What is topography?
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