volcanoes
Shaping Earth's Suface
vocab
earthquakes
landforms
100
Mamga
What is a hot rock under Earth's crust
100
Physical Weathering
What is caused by temperature changes, pushing, pulling, or rubbing
100
Meanders
What has gentle curves and sometimes form in rivers with slow moving waters
100
Epicenter
What is a place were people can feel the ground skaking
100
Mountains
What rises high above the ground
200
Erupting Volcano
What is active volcano
200
Floodplain
What is a place that gets flooded very easily flooded
200
Seisometer
What is an instrument that detects and measures waves made by an earthquake.
200
Valley
The low and rounder than a mountain
300
Hot spot
A tectonic plate moves over a pool of magma
300
Erosion
What can be caused by gravity, glaciers, running water, waves, or wind
300
Glacier
What is a large mass of slowly flowing ice
300
Primary waves
What is a wave that moves the fastest
400
Extinct
What is a volcano that stops erupting
400
Chemical weathering
What occurs when chemicals break down rock.
400
Weathering
What is the process through which rocks or other materials are broken down
400
Secondary waves
What is a wave that only moves through Earth's crust
500
Dormant
Waiting to erupt
500
Acid rain
What forms when gases from factories enter the air and mix with rain
500
Sediment
What are particles of soil and rock that are carried along in water
500
Surface waves
What is a wave that moves the slowest but does the most damage
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