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Vocabulary
Mixed ?'s
100
An area of low land between two mountains or hills.
What is a valley?
100
An opening in the Earth's crust through which magma from the mantle erupts.
What is a volcano?
100
A large body of slowly moving ice.
What is a glacier?
100
A natural shape on Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
100
The mechanical breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces by natural forces.
What is physical weathering?
200
An area of flat land.
What is a plain?
200
When rocks, dirt, or soil quickly fall down the side of a landform like a mountain or canyon.
What is a landslide?
200
These help stop or slow down erosion.
What are plants?
200
Very small pieces or parts of rock.
What are particles?
200
This occurs when water loses its energy and drops its load of sediment.
What is a deposit?
300
A large crack in the earth formed by a river or earthquake.
What is a canyon?
300
When tectonic plates slide and cause the ground to shake.
What is an earthquake?
300
A landform created by weathering, erosion, and depositon at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
300
Small bits of rock and soil that are moved by water to another place.
What is sediment?
300
The process that breaks rocks down by changing their composition.
What is chemical weathering?
400
A large area of flat land that is raised higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
400
An extremely large, forceful wave caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
400
The force that most often causes weathering, erosion, and deposition.
What is water?
400
These cause movement and change to Earth's surface.
What are forces?
400
A slow process of rocks getting dropped in another place by water, wind, and ice.
What is deposition?
500
An area of land that is completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
500
A large hill made of sand created by erosion and deposition.
What is a sand dune?
500
What happens when the ocean breaks rocks into smaller and smaller pieces.
What is a sandy beach?
500
The process of rubbing and scraping rocks.
What is abrasion?
500
A force that can slowly weather rocks over time.
What is ice?