Earth's Surface and Below
Water and Wind
Fire and Ice
Science Rocks
Plates and Quakes
100
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
Weathering is the process that breaks down rock. Erosion is the process that carries it away.
100
Wind can blow sand and drop it in big piles creating land forms. What kind of land form is created in this way?
Sand Dune
100
What is the name of a huge, moving, solid sheet of ice?
Glacier
100
What process causes stones to become smooth?
Weathering
100
Where is an earthquake the most severe?
Epicenter
200
What is the smallest, but densest layer of the Earth?
Core
200
What is the name for tiny pieces of rock, such as sand and silt?
Sediment
200
What is a vent in the Earth where molten rock escapes called?
Volcano
200
What kind of erosion forms caves?
Water
200
An earthquake occurs when too much pressure builds up along what?
Fault
300
List the 4 layers of the Earth, beginning with the center and moving outward.
Inner Core Outer Core Mantle Crust
300
Rivers can cut through rock cliffs. What land form is created when this occurs?
Canyon
300
How can ice weather a rock?
Water gets in the cracks of a rock. When it freezes, it expands and breaks the rocks.
300
What forms when 2 continental plates come together?
Mountain Range
300
What theory states that the Earth's crust consists of many moving pieces?
Plate Tectonics
400
Tectonic plates move over the extremely hot, partly- melted layer of the Earth. What is this layer called?
Mantle
400
Wind, water and ice weather rock and carry the sediment. What is the term for the process of dropping the rock?
Deposition
400
What is the difference between magma and lava?
Magma is the molten rock while its still under the crust. It becomes lava when it comes out of the volcano.
400
Mountain ranges and island chains are most likely to form on what part of the plates?
Plate Boundaries
400
What kind of scientist studies earthquakes?
Seismologist
500
The crust is made up of several _____________ that fit like puzzle pieces.
Plates
500
What forms when waves erode a cave all the way through a cliff?
Sea arch
500
What kind of volcano is non-explosive?
Shield
500
What is formed when 2 plates pull away from each other, eventually resulting in 2 different land masses?
Rift
500
A Richter Scale measures how much energy an earthquake releases. What is the term for the energy it releases?
Magnitude
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