Earth's Landforms
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Shaping Earth's Surface
100
A physical feature on Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
100
A scientist who examines rocks to find out about Earth's history and structure.
What is a geologist?
100
An opening in the Earth's crust through which magma flows.
What is a volcano?
100
A sudden movement of the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
100
The process through which rocks or other materials are broken down.
What is weathering?
200
A wide flat area of the ocean floor
What is an abyssal plain?
200
Theory that explains how forces deep within Earths can cause the ocean floors to spread and continents to move.
What is Plate Tectonics?
200
Shield, Cinder-cone, and Composite.
What are the types of active volcanoes?
200
The place where slipping begins along a fault.
What is the focus?
200
Physical and chemical.
What are the two types of weathering?
300
Uses contour lines to represent elevation.
What is a topographical map?
300
Hot melted rock.
What is magma?
300
A stationary pool of magma.
What is a hot spot?
300
The point from which waves spread out on the Earth's surface above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
300
The process through which weathered rock is moved from one place to another.
What is erosion?
400
The atmosphere, hydrosphere, crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.
What are Earth's layers?
400
A deep crack in Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
400
A line of volcanic mountains.
What is an island chain?
400
An instrument that detects and measures waves produced by an earthquake.
What is a seismometer?
400
The dropping off of eroded materials in another place.
What is deposition?
500
An underwater mountain range that rises from the ocean floor but stops before it reaches the surface of the ocean.
What is a seamount?
500
German geologist who noticed that created the Theory of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
500
A circle of volcanoes that surrounds the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
Scale that measures the magnitude at the center of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
500
Gentle loops that sometimes form in rivers with slow moving water.
What are meanders?
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