Definitions
Volcanoes
Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Floods and Landslides
Randoms
100
Events that occur naturally in the environment.
What are natural process?
100
Once the liquid within the volcano reaches the surface it is now called this
What is lava?
100
What do you feel when a earthquake happens?
What are vibrations?
100
Floods and Landslide happens slow or rapid?
What is rapid?
100
Another name for mechanical weathering.
What is physical weathering?
200
The process where rocks and minerals near the surface if the earth are broken down, dissolved, or decomposed into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
200
The liquid within a volcanoe
What is magma?
200
What is i being released during an earthquake?
What is energy?
200
Sudden mass movements of land downhill due to gravity.
What are landslides?
200
This type of weathering changes the size and composition of the rock.
What is chemical weathering?
300
A particular type of rock that hangs from the ceiling of caves and caverns.
What are stalactites?
300
An area where most volcanic activity occurs.
What is the ring of fire?
300
What is the tool/ instrument that measure vibrations inside the earth?
What is a seismograph?
300
Landslides are what type of natural process?
What is destructive?
300
When stalactites and stalagmites meet.
What is a column?
400
The process of carrying away weathered materials like rocks, minerals, and soil.
What is erosion?
400
When these two things are released from a volcano it can destroy forests and bury fields.
What is ash and lava.
400
When earthquakes happen under the ocean they can create this.
What are tsunamis?
400
When large amounts of water cover land that is usually dry.
What are floods?
400
The most common agent of erosion.
What is water?
500
Mountains with openings in the Earth's crust where magma, gases, and ash reach the surface.
What are volcanoes?
500
Volcanic mountains that form under water.
What are seamounts?
500
A break in the Earth's surface where earthquakes are often found.
What are faults?
500
What type of natural process are floods.
What are constructive and destructive?
500
The dropping of sediments by water, wind, or ice.
What is deposition?
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