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Definitions
Landforms
Parts of the Earth
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Fossils
100
A natural feature of Earth's surface.
What is landform
100
Demonstrate the "mirror" of all the landforms.
What is mountain, hill, valley, canyon, plateau, plains, island, delta, and dune.
100
Why does the earth's inner core remain solid?
What is because the pressure on the inner core is very great.
100
Where do most earthquakes occur?
What is along faults.
100
What causes a tree to be pertrified?
What is when the tree's wood is replaced by rock.
200
A landform much higher than the land around it.
What is a mountain.
200
What landform would be the best to plant crops on? Why?
What is delta because of the fetile soil (being by a river)
200
Which of Earth's layers include the land that makes up the continents and the land under the oceans?
What is the Earth's crust.
200
What is the the "tube" of the volcano called?
What is a conduit.
200
What can you tell about a fossil of a footprint by looking at it?
What is how big it is.
300
A large, moving mass of ice.
What is a glacier.
300
What would you find in the upper parts of the Earth's mantle?
What is melted rock.
300
Describe a shield volcano.
Gently sloping sides, "skinny", usually underwater.
300
What is the information about Earth's history that is contained in fossils?
What is fossil record.
400
The shape of landforms in an area.
What is topography.
400
How are deltas and dunes alike?
What is they both involve the movement of sand and sand.
400
Name the layers of the earth and what each layer is composed of.
inner core: iron and nickel outer core: liquid mantle: plates and rocky substance crust: solid rock
400
Describe a trace fossil.
It does not show how a whole plant or animal looked, but it tells something about it.
500
The dropping of soil and rock by rivers.
What is deposition.