Running Water
Ice Cubes
Liquid Rocks
Moving Plates
Shake Things Up
100
The process where fragments of dirt and rock is moved from the Earth's surface.
What is Erosion?
100
A large mass of ice that moves across the land.
What is a Glacier?
100
Molten rock that is still inside of the Earth
What is Magma?
100
This structure is formed when two continental plates collide.
What are Mountains?
100
Earthquakes are found along these.
What are Plate Boundaries?
200
The process where sediment settles out of water.
What is Deposition?
200
A ridge of sediment deposited at the end of a Glacier.
What is a Moraine?
200
A volcano that is very large and flat, made entirely of runny lava.
What is Shield Volcano?
200
The single land mass that was formed by all of the continents.
What is Pangaea?
200
In the Ring of Fire, Earthquakes and Volcanoes are found around this type of boundary.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
300
The looping curved form of a river.
What is a Meander?
300
A large stone that is randomly deposited as a glacier melts.
What is an Erratic?
300
A volcanic mudflow, formed as volcanic ash mixes with water.
What is Lahar?
300
This type of boundary is where plates grind past each other, not over each other.
What is a Transform Boundary?
300
Earthquakes are often found along this feature, where the plates are moving away from each other.
What is a Divergent Boundary?
400
A fan shaped land form where a river meets a large body of water.
What is Delta?
400
When rocks frozen to the bottom of glaciers gouge and scratch the land.
What is Abrasion?
400
A volcano with steep sides and a large vent, made entirely of rocky fragments.
What is a Cinder Cone?
400
The theory that Earth's plates were once connected in a single land mass and have since moved apart.
What is Continental Drift Theory?
400
When rocks snap back to their original shape, the stress is releases in the form of these.
What are Seismic Waves?
500
This land form is made when erosion and deposition change the course of a river.
What is an Oxbow Lake?
500
When glaciers pull pieces of bedrock from the ground.
What is Plucking?
500
A feature that is formed when a magma chamber empties, causing the volcano to collapse inward.
What is Caldera?
500
This person first hypothesized continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
500
The process where rocks bend and stretch from stress.
What is Elastic Deformation?
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