Boom!
What shape is a volcano?
It is a cone.
What does cause earthquakes?
Move of tectonic plates.
It is a large ocean wave caused by an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
Weathering and erosion are these kinds of changes.
What are slow Earth changes?
What does erosion carry away?
Soil and rocks
It is underground molten rock.
What is magma?
What is a reverse fault?
Iy is when two tectonic plates move toward each other. (coming together)
It happens when large amount of rock and soil move rapidly downhill.
What is a landslide?
It is the breaking down of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
It can create deep cracks in the ground.
What is an earthquake?
It is a volcano "explosion".
What is erruption?
It happens when two blocks of land move horizontally rather than vertically along a fault lane.
What is a strike-slip fault?
Heavy rain, earthquake, or mining.
It is when the rock particles are moved by wind and water.
What is erosion?
Which landform can rivers create over thousands of years?
Canyons or valleys
It is magma outside of a volcano.
What is lava?
It is a fracture between two tectonic plates.
What is a fault?
What tsunamis can cause once they hit a coastline?
Destruction
These are rock particles moved by water, wind, or glaciers.
What is sediment?
Name 3 fast land changes.
Volcano eruption, earthquake, landslide, tornado, tsunami.
What does the liquid from a volcano become when it cools?
a rock
It is the scale used to measure earthquakes.
What is a Richter scale?
It is a violent rotating (spinning) column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. They can destroy large buildings, uproot trees and hurl vehicles hundreds of yards
What is a tornado?
It is when the particles (sediment) are left somewhere after they have been moved.
What is a deposition?
Name 2 slow land changes.
Weathering, erosion, deposition.