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Lava before it erupts from a volcano.
What is Magma?
When wind, water, or ice moves material away from an area, changing the shape of the land.
What is erosion?
Where the earth's plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
A mountain that releases magma as lava.
What is a volcano?
An area of flat land that was pushed up high by forces under the crust.
What is a plateau?
Where the earth's plates move towards each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
When the earth shakes because of movements in its crust.
What is an earthquake?
The breaking of materials down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
A flat area of rock that used to be mountains but got eroded.
What is a shield?
A machine used to measure the power of earthquakes and other movement in the earth’s crust.
What is a seismograph?
The different shapes of the land.
What are landforms?
The circular flow of a material due to heating from below.
What is convection?
Rocky layer that is the earth’s crust.
What is the lithosphere?
The spot where an earthquake actually happens.
What id the epicentre?
The movement of the earth’s plates in the crust.
What is plate tectonics?
The layer under the earth's crust, made of magma.
What is the asthenosphere (mantle)?