What is a naturally formed solid made of one or more minerals?
100
Canyon
What is a valley with steep sides?
100
flood
What is a large amount of water that covers normally dry land?
100
Valley
What is a low area between higher lands such as mountains?
100
Stalagmites
What is a type of Speleothems that grows up from the cave floor?
200
Igneous Rock
What is rock that was once melted and then cooled and hardened?
200
Earthquake
What is the shaking of Earth's surface caused by movement in Earth's crust?
200
Weathering
What is the way rocks are broken down into smaller pieces?
200
Volcano
What is an opening in Earth's surface from which lava flows?
200
Stalactites
What is a type of Speleothems is this: Icicle-shaped and hang down from the ceiling of the cave. It begins as a hollow tube of calcite with a diameter of the sixe of a water drop called a soda straw. Over time the tube becomes plugged with calcite which causes it to grow fatter around the outside of the formation. Will grow about one cubic inch every 100 years?
300
Sedimentary Rock
What is rock that forms from material that has settled into layers?
300
Erosion
What is The movement of weathered rock and soil?
300
Butte
What is a flat-topped rock column that was a mesa that has worn away?
300
Rivers drop soil at their mouths. The soil builds up to form a landform called a delta.
What is a delta?
300
Flowstone
What is calcite flows out of or on top of the limestone rock?
400
Metamorphic Rock
What is rock that has been changed by temperature and pressure?
400
Mountain
What is a place on Earth's surface that is much higher than the land around it?
400
Landform
What is a natural shape on Earth's surface?
400
Earthquakes
What is it called when........can change landforms. They make big crack in Earth's surface. They create uneven areas of ground?
400
Column
What is where a stalacitite and stalagmite have joined together?
500
A fossil
What is a trace or the remains of a living thing that died a long time ago?
500
Plateau
What is a flat area higher than the land around it?
500
Plain
What is a wide, flat area on Earth's surface?
500
A volcano is a type of mountain. Lava and rock build up on its sides each time it erupts. The volcano mountain slowly becomes taller.
What is Volcano?
500
Helectites
What is unusual spaghetti growths of calcite that branch, twist, and turn every eay possible completely diregarding gravity?