Landforms/Water Features
Earth's Layers
Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics 2
Shaping Earth's Surface
100
Flat land that is higher than the land around it
What is a plateau?
100
all of Earth's liquid and solid water
What is the hydrosphere?
100
What type of scientist examines rocks to find out about Earth's history and structure?
What is a geologist?
100
the squeezing or pushing together of the plates
What is compression?
100
the process through which rocks are broken down
What is weathering?
200
a mound of or ridge of sand
What is a sand dune?
200
the layer of the Earth's interior right below the crust
What is the mantle?
200
this scientist came up with the theory of continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
the twisting, tearing or pushing of one plate past another
What is shear?
200
the process through which weathered rock is moved from one place to another place
What is erosion?
300
the deepest part of the oceans
What is a trench?
300
the layer of gases that surround the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
300
this fresh water reptile's fossil was found in both South America and Africa helping to prove the Theory of Continental Drift
What is Mesosaurus?
300
the type of mountain the is formed from compression
What are folded mountains?
300
the process by which eroded rocks and sediments are dropped off in another place
What is deposition?
400
wide flat area of the ocean floor
What is an abyssal plain?
400
the crust and the top of the upper mantle
What is the lithosphere?
400
hot, melted rock inside the Earth
What is magma?
400
the type of mountains that are formed through shear
What are fault-block mountains?
400
a large mass of slowly moving ice
What is a glacier?
500
underwater mountain ranges
What are mid-ocean ridges?
500
the layer of Earth that includes all the parts of Earth where living things are found
What is the biosphere?
500
hot, liquid rock that makes it to the surface of the Earth
What is lava?
500
the stretching or pulling apart of the plates
What is tension?
500
the shape of a valley once a glacier has melted
What is a U-shaped valley?
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