Landforms
This landform is very high with steep sides and often formed by tectonic forces.
$100: What is a mountain?
This theory explains that Earth’s plates are always moving.
$100: What is plate tectonic theory?
This process breaks rocks into smaller pieces.
$100: What is weathering?
A system of flowing water like rivers and streams. (Hint: the answer is written in this!)
$100: What is a river system?
I am a human activity that uses water to help crops grow.
What is irrigation?
This landform is a flat, elevated area of land.
$200: What is a plateau?
I am the rigid outer layer of the Earth that includes the crust and upper mantle.
Lithosphere
This process moves sediment from one place to another.
$200: What is erosion?
This is the land area that drains water into a river.
$200: What is a drainage basin?
I am a global issue caused by human activities that leads to rising temperatures and changes in water systems.
What is climate change?
This landform forms when lava erupts from beneath Earth’s surface.
$300: What is a volcano?
I am the soft, semi-molten layer that allows plates to move.
What is the asthenosphere?
I am a type of erosion caused by flowing rivers and streams carrying sediment.
What is water erosion?
I am a pattern that shows how rivers and streams are arranged, often looking like branches on a tree.
$300: Dendritic
I happen when people remove trees from an area, which can increase erosion and affect ecosystems.
What is deforestation?
I am low land between hills or mountains, often formed by erosion from water or ice.
Valley
I am a place where tectonic plates meet, and I can be convergent, divergent, or transform.
What is a plate boundary?
I am a type of erosion caused by moving ice that shapes land as it travels.
Glacial/ice erosion
I am a movement of ocean water caused mainly by wind.
This product removes water from natural systems to sell in containers to consumers.
$400: What is bottled water?
I form where a river slows down and drops sediment at its mouth, creating new land over time.
Delta
I am the movement inside Earth caused by heat that pushes tectonic plates to move.
What are convection currents?
Explain the difference between weathering and erosion.
$500: Weathering breaks down; erosion moves material
I am a system that includes rivers, lakes, groundwater, and oceans, and I am essential for ecosystems and human life.
What is a water system
I am the scientist who first proposed the theory of continental drift, suggesting that continents were once joined together.
Who is Alfred Wegener?