Landforms
Inside the Earth
Our Moving Crust
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
This is the tallest landform on the surface of the Earth.
What is a mountain?
100
This is the outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
100
This is the place where plates meet-a long narrow crack in the crust.
What is a fault.
100
This is there sudden, violent shaking of the Earth.
What is an earthquake?
100
A volcano forms around this area.
What is an opening in the Earth's crust?
200
These are flat landforms that do not have hills or mountains.
What are plains?
200
This is the solid iron center of our Earth.
What is the inner core?
200
This is a mountain formed when one plate slips over another and rises.
What is a fault block mountain?
200
This is the cause of earthquakes.
What is pressure of plates rubbing together?
200
This is the melted iron below the surface of the Earth.
What is magma?
300
These are the mounds of sand formed by wind.
What are sand dunes?
300
These are the large pieces of rock that make up our crust.
What are plates?
300
This is a mountain with a flat top.
What is a plateau?
300
These are the waves caused by an earthquake.
What are seismic waves?
300
When magma reaches the Earth's surface, we call it this.
What is lava?
400
These are triangular shaped areas formed from bits of sand and soil that are carried by rivers.
What is a delta?
400
The outer core is made mostly of this melted metal.
What is iron?
400
This is an area where plates meet and slowly press against each other while scrunching up the rock around it.
What is a fold?
400
This is the instrument scientists use to measure the strength of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
400
These US islands were formed from volcanoes.
What are the Hawaiian islands?
500
This is the underwater land that connects the shore to the sea.
What is the continental shelf?
500
The Earth's crust is thinnest in these locations.
What is under the oceans?
500
This makes it possible for the plates that make up the crust to move.
What is the liquid magma?
500
These are gigantic waves caused from massive earthquakes under the ocean.
What are tsunamis?
500
This is a ring in the Pacific Ocean where a great amount of volcanic activity takes place.
What is the Ring of Fire?
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