Landforms
The Rock Cycle
Weathering and Erosion
Earthquakes
100
Any natural shape found on the earth's suface
What is a landform?
100
The earth's process of changing one type of rock into another type of rock?
What is the rock cycle?
100
The breakdown of the earths crust into sediment?
What is weathering?
100
The sheets of rocks that make up the top outer crust of the earth
What are plates?
200
wind, moving water, and gravity
What causes erosion?
200
heat, erosion, and pressure
What helps change one type of rock into other types of rock?
200
What is it called when weathered rock is carried away/
What is erosion?
200
A crack in the earth's surface
What is a fault?
300
mountains
What is formed when two of earth's plates push into one another?
300
pumice
Which type of rock would you find near a volcano?
300
The process of acid rain wearing away limestone
What is chemical weathering?
300
What causes the continental plates to move
What is seismic moment and intensity?
400
glaciers and erosion from rivers
What forms U-shaped valleys?
400
The pressure of many layers of rock?
Which process is necessary for creating igneous rock?
400
wind blowing away sediment
What is an example of erosion?
400
scientists who study earthquakes
What are siesmologists?
500
They both are formed in part by sand
How are deltas and dunes alike?
500
sedimentary rock
What type of rock is layered?
500
When a glacier deposits rock into lakes or oceans
What is deposition?
500
What does the richter scale measure?
What is the size of earthquakes?
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