Earth's Landforms
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Vocab
Shaping Earth's Surface
100
plateau
What is flat land that is higher than the land around it?
100
Shield, composite, cinder-cone.
What is the three types of volcanoes?
100
When layers of rock that are stuck together suddenly slip.
How do earthquakes happen?
100
meander
What has gentle curves?
100
physical wheathering
What is caused by temperature changes, pushing, pulling, or rubbing?
200
cliff
What is a high, steep section of rock or soil?
200
Where tectonic plates meet.
Where are volcanoes mostly found?
200
epicenter
Where do the people first feel the ground shaking.
200
sediment
What is particles of soil and rock that are carried along in water?
200
chemical wheathering
What happens when chemicals break down rock?
300
valley
What is the low land between hills and mountains?
300
magma
What is lava inside a volcano?
300
seismometer
What is an instrument that detects and measures waves made by an earthquake?
300
floodplain
What is a place that is easily flooded when river water rises?
300
erosion
What can be caused by gravity, glaciers, running water, waves, or wind?
400
canyon
What is a high, steep section of rock and soil?
400
sleeping
What is a dormant volcano?
400
richter scale
How do you measure an earthquakes magnitude?
400
deposition
What is the process by which eroded materials are dropped off in another place
400
glaciers
What is bits of rock wear away the ground as a glacier spreads?
500
hill
What is lower and rounder than a mountain?
500
Volcanoes are formed when magma from within the Earth's upper mantle works its way to the surface
How do volcanoes form?
500
3 stations
How many stations does a scientist need to find the epicenter of an earthquake?
500
wheathering
What is the process through which rocks or other materials are broken down?
500
gravity
What is mudslides and landslides pulled by?
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