Volcanoes
Earthquake
vocab
Landforms
Shaping Earths surface
100
A opening in the earths crust.
How is a volcano formed?
100
When plates stuck together suddenly slip.
How is a earthquake formed.
100
Low land between a hill or mountain
What is a valley
100
The process of which eroded rock is dropped of in another place.
What is deposition.
100
Gentle curves sometimes found in rivers with slow moving water.
What is meanders?
200
Magma when it comes out of a volcano.
What is lava?
200
The place where a earthquake begins.
What is focus.
200
When weathered rock is moved one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
Where river water and ocean water meet.
What is a estuary
200
Factory gas goes up in the air and mixes with rain.
What is acid rain?
300
Line of volcanic mountains.
What is an island chain?
300
How many stations are needed to find the epiceneter of an earthquake.
What is 3 stations.
300
Something put up to stop flooding
What is a levee?
300
True or false A dune is formed by wind.
What is true?
300
True or False Shorelines are formed by wind
What is false.
400
A volcano waiting to erupt.
What is dormant.
400
Depths of 50 miles beneath the surface.
What is the usual depth of an earthquake.
400
The measure of the amount of energy released by an earthquake.
What is magnitude?
400
A deep valley with high steep sides.
What is a canyon.
400
Particles of soil and rock that are carried along in water.
What is sediment.
500
Thick lava thrown into the air and falls as chunks.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
500
Caused by a 6.5 earthquake.
What is a tsunami.
500
A narrow body of water off of a larger body of water.
What is a inlet?
500
Has very little rain each year.
What is a dessert.
500
How can you stop beach erosion.
What is fences and grasses.
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