Continental relief
An eruption from one of these could leave your town buried in ash. Luckily most are dormant near civilization.
What is a volcano?
These sandy areas are often vacation getaways.
What are beaches?
These long sunken areas share their name with a place soldiers protect themselves on the battlefield.
What are trenches?
This is found directly below the earth’s crust.
What is magma?
These continental reliefs are flat on the top like a table.
What are plateaus?
This is the name of the largest inlet of the sea. One is found near Mexico.
What is a gulf?
This incline can reach 3600 m deep.
What is a continental slope?
This state in the United States is most prone to earthquakes.
What is California?
The state of Colorado was named for these vibrant and colorful continental reliefs.
What are mountain ranges?
This is a large area of high coastal land that sticks out into the sea. You’ll find one on Batman‘s back.
What is a cape?
This large expanse of land is flat and found around 500 m deep.
What is an abyssal plain?
One of these will leave a town destroyed and soaked for weeks.
What are tsunamis?
Some say they have eyes or that they’re named after Beverly, but they’re really just smaller version of mountains.
What are hills?
Florida is considered one of these for being almost an island.
What is a peninsula?
Walk too far out on the beach and you’ll get to this underwater extension of the continent.
What is a continental shelf?
Shifting of these cause continental disasters to occur.
What are tectonic plates?
The largest of these in the world can be found in Arizona in the United States and it’s aptly named!
What are canyons?
Panama’s relatively thin shape makes it considered one of these, with Central America and South America on each end.
What is an isthmus?
This is another name for an underwater mountain range.
What is an ocean ridge?
This is the point inside the earth where an earthquake begins and seismic waves start.
What is the focus?