Terrestrial Landforms
Low land between hills and mountains
What is a valley?
Trench
What is a canyon under the ocean?
Sudden violent shaking of the earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
Creates large opening in the earth's surface
What is an earthquake?
Terrestrial volcano
What is a seamount/ volcanic island?
Land which rises high above the ground.
What is a mountain?
An opening from which lava flows.
What is a seamount or volcanic island?
Created by an earthquake underwater and is a large destructive wave.
What is a Tsunamis?
Creates new land
What is a volcano?
Terrestrial Plains
What are abyssal plains?
Volcano
What is an opening in the surface from which lava flows?
Land which rises high above the ocean floor?
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
Tropic storm that forms over warm water.
What is a hurricane?
Creates canyons
What are flooding and erosion?
Terrestial Canyon
What is a trench?
Plains
What are wide flat areas of land?
Abyssal Plains
What is a flat rea of land?
Massive erosion of shorelines and pollution of the oceans
How do tsunamis change the earth's landforms?
Creates islands
What is a seamount?
Terrestrial Mountain
What is a mid-ocean range?
Canyon
What has deep valleys with steep sides?
Break in the ocean floor where lava creates new ocean floor
What is a rift?
Cracks in the earth's surface, landslides, and mudslides
Creates sea floor spreading
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
Terrestrial Beach
What is the continental shelf?