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Landforms 2
100

The highest landform. Must be 969 feet above the land around it.

What are mountains?

100
The way rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
The shaking of the Earth's crust and mantle.
What is an earthquake?
100
When wind blows sand and soil around, bits of this are broken down.
What is rocks?
100

A dry, often sandy area of little rainfall. It is very hot with little vegetation.

What is a desert?

200

Low, long, flat areas bordered on both sides by higher land, hills, or mountains.

What is valleys?

200
The movement of weathered rock and soil
What is erosion?
200
An opening in the Earth's surface from which lava flows.
What is a volcano?
200
Causes weathering when it freezes.
What is water?
200

Natural features of the earth's surface.

What is a landform?

300

The largest canyon in the world.

What is the Grand Canyon?

300

 The smoothing of this in rivers.

What is rocks or river rocks?

300

A large stretch of flat land usually with grass covering it.

What are plains?

300
Causes weathering as it's roots grow into cracks in rocks.
What are plants?
300

Is a hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind.

What is a sand dune?

400

Tallest mountain in the world.

What is Mt. Everest?

400

When a huge amount of snow from a mountain flows down the mountain uncontrolled.

What is an avalanche?

400

Causes buildings to shake and possibly collapse.

What is an earthquake?

400
The movement of this causes rocks to wear down, and moves rocks from one place to another.
What is water?
400
A fairly large flat area of land that is higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
500

Name the one state that is an island.

What is Hawaii?

500
Huge sheets of ice
What are glaciers?
500

This covers nearly three fourths of the Earth's surface?

What are oceans?

500
How long it takes weathering to break rocks into soil.
What is thousands of years?
500

What do you call a person who studies rocks for a living?

What is a geologist?