Vocab
Small Scale
Large Scale
Earth
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100
Features on Earth’s surface that occur naturally.
What are LANDFORMS?
100
Caused by underwater earthquake, volcanic eruption or landslide.
What is a TSUNAMI?
100
When 2 tectonic plates collide (come together) at convergent plate boundaries.
What is MOUNTAIN FORMATION?
100
The surface of the EARTH.
What is the CRUST?
100
Examples include mountains, canyons and plateaus.
What are LANDFORMS?
200
They move in regular directions and NOT randomly.
What are TECTONIC PLATES?
200
Caused by build up of stress force between pieces of Earth’s crust moving against each other.
What is an EARTHQUAKE?
200
Occurs at CONVERGENT plate boundaries when one plate moves UNDER another.
What is SUBDUCTION?
200
A liquid layer BELOW the SURFACE of the Earth.
What is the MANTLE?
200
Plates that move TOWARDS each other.
What are CONVERGENT plates?
300
80-90% of VOLCANOES on Earth are found here.
What is the RING OF FIRE?
300
An opening in the Earth which gas, hot magma and ash can escape from.
What is a VOLCANO?
300
Oceans form from tectonic plate movement at divergent plate boundaries.
What is SEA FLOOR SPREADING?
300
Earth’s crust MOVES from one place to another.
What is EROSION?
300
Plates that move APART FROM each other.
What are DIVERGENT plates?
400
A LARGE amount of land or LARGE amount of time.
What is LARGE SCALE?
400
Rock, earth, and/or debris (trash), that move down a SLOPE due to GRAVITY.
What is a LANDSLIDE?
400
Moving ice that can change landscapes.
What are GLACIERS?
400
When rocks & soil are BROKEN down into SMALLER particles.
What is WEATHERING?
400
A SMALL amount of land or SMALL amount of time.
What is SMALL SCALE?
500
A natural force that shapes the physical planet.
What is a GEOLOGICAL PROCESS?
500
Causes include hurricanes, broken dams, fast melting snow, and heavy, slow moving rain.
What is a FLOOD?
500
Formed from rivers slowing down and dropping sediment (soil, rocks, sand, etc).
What is DELTA FORMATION?
500
Old crust sinks, melts into magma, heats up, moves back up and out to Earth’s surface.
What is CONVECTION?
500
This landform was created by this process.
What is EROSION?