Earth's Landforms
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Shaping Earth's Surface
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What are landforms?
Physical features on earth's surface.
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What is a geologist?
A scientist who examines rocks.
100
What is a volcano?
It is an opening in the earth's crust.
100
What is an earthquake?
Is a sudden movement of Earth's crust.
100
What is weathering?
A process through which rocks are broken down
200
What are the features of the ocean floor?
Continental shelf, Continental slope, Continental rise, Seamount, Mid-Ocean ridge, Rift Valley, Trench, Abyssal Plain
200
What theory explains the movements of the continental plates?
Plate tectonics
200
What is an eruption?
It is an outpouring of melted rock, ash, gases, or a combination of these.
200
What is a seismometers?
An instrument that detects and mesures waves produced by an earthquake.
200
What causes physical weathering?
Temperature, Pulling, Pushing, or Rubbing
300
What is a relief map?
A map that uses shading to show elevations
300
What is magma?
Hot melted rock
300
What kinds of volcanoes do you know?
Active, Dormant, and Extinct volcanoes
300
What is an epicenter of the earthquake?
A point directly above the focus of the earthquake
300
What is an erosion?
The proccess through which weathered rock is moved from one place to another.
400
What is a topographical map?
It uses contour lines to show elevation.
400
What is compression?
Is a squeezing or a pushing together of the crust.
400
What kinds of Active volcanoes do you know?
Shield, Cider-vone, and Composite volcanoes
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What is a magnitude of the earthquake?
Mesure of the amount of energy released by an earthquake.
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What is deposition?
A process through which eroded materials are dropped off in other places
500
What are the earth's layers?
The Atmosphere, the Hydrosphere, the Crust, the Mantle, and the Core
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What are faults?
Deep crackes in earth's crust
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What is a hot spot?
a stationary pull of magma
500
What is a tsunami?
Big wave
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What is a floodplain?
A place that is easily flooded
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