Marvellous Mountains
Ice, Ice, Baby!
River Anatomy 101
Forces of Erosion
AKA
100
Earth's Crust is split into these.
What are tectonic plates?
100
The line above where glaciers form.
What is the snow line?
100
The start
What is the source?
100
Sculpts sand dunes.
What is wind?
100
Rain, snow, sleet and hail
What is precipitation?
200
The process by which a mountain is formed when two continental plates converge.
What is uplifting?
200
The movement of glaciers creates these types of valleys.
What are U-shaped valleys?
200
The end
What is a delta?
200
Eats banks.
What is water?
200
Nature's bulldozer
What is a glacier?
300
A dome-shaped mountain created by layers of lava.
What is a shield volcano?
300
Glaciers act like this type of material (that you might find at your local hardware store) on the land underneath them.
What is sand paper?
300
Forms when water flows over a hard surface that covers a softer material.
What is a waterfall?
300
Creates caves in limestone.
What is water?
300
A large wave triggered by an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
400
The kind of fault where tectonic plates try to slide past each other.
What is transform?
400
When rocks are picked up by glaciers.
What is plucking?
400
Curves
What are meanders?
400
Scours land with rocks.
What is ice?
400
A rock that does not fit in with its surroundings.
What is an erratic?
500
The large land mass that existed before continental drift began.
What is Pangaea?
500
Materials that are deposited downhill where glaciers melt.
What is glacial till?
500
Lake formed by an abandoned meander.
What is an ox bow lake?
500
Cracks open rocks?
What is ice?
500
Someone who studies earthquakes.
What is a seismologist?
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