Layers of the Earth
Moving Parts
Landforms
Building Landforms
Randoms
100
The innermost part of the earth
What is the core?
100
The name of the supercontinent that broke into plates and became the continents we know today
What is pangaea?
100
The word used to describe the height of a landform
What is elevation?
100
The heat in the earth's interior creates these in the earth's mantle
What is convection currents?
100
An elevated area of land between mountains
What is a plateau?
200
The solid outer layer of the earth
What is the crust?
200
The theory that the earth's plates are moving
What is continental drift?
200
The difference in elevation between different points on the earth's surface
What is relief?
200
These are created when plates separate and compress upward
What are fault block mountains?
200
Generally fertile land formed under a lake or a sea and that appeared after the water receded
What is a plain?
300
The middle layer of the earth between the crust and the core
What is the mantle?
300
The theory that the earth's plates move up against each other cause earthquakes, volcano eruptions, mountains and trenches
What is plate tectonics?
300
The steepness of slopes
What is gradient?
300
These are created when plates separate or collide downwards
What are trenches and/or rift valleys?
300
Rock that is created from bits and pieces of other rocks that eroded, landed on top of each other and compressed to become a solid rock (although sometimes it can sometimes break apart easily)
What is sedimentary rock?
400
Thick, hot, liquid and slow moving rock within the earth
What is magma?
400
An area of the earth where one plate is being pushed underneath another
What is a subduction zone?
400
The study of types of rocks and the history of rocks
What is geology?
400
When the landform is changed by precipitation or wind
What is weathering?
400
The age that geologists believe the earth is
What is 4.5 billion years old?
500
Large sections of the earth's crust
What are plates?
500
The nickname of the plate that is surrounded by active volcanoes
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
500
This refers to the elevation, relief, gradient, geology, and general appearance of landforms
What is topography?
500
The process of the land being built up by eroded materials landing elsewhere and creating new shapes
What is deposition?
500
The base of a mountain region where the mountains have worn away
What is a shield?