Landforms
An area of low land between two mountains or hills.
What is a valley?
An opening in the Earth's crust through which magma from the mantle erupts.
What is a volcano?
A large body of slowly moving ice.
What is a glacier?
A natural shape on Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
What are the 3 types of rocks?
igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
An area of flat land.
What is a plain?
When rocks, dirt, or soil quickly fall down the side of a landform like a mountain or canyon.
What is a landslide?
These help stop or slow down erosion.
What are plants?
Name the earth's layers from inside out.
crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core
What was the name of the Super Continent?
Pangaea
A large crack in the earth formed by a river or earthquake.
What is a canyon?
When tectonic plates slide and cause the ground to shake.
What is an earthquake?
A landform created by weathering, erosion, and depositon at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
Small bits of rock and soil that are moved by water to another place.
What is sediment?
What are the layers of the earth?...outer to inner
crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core
A large area of flat land that is raised higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
An extremely large, forceful wave caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
The force that most often causes weathering, erosion, and deposition.
What is water?
These cause movement and change to Earth's surface.
tectonic plates moving, colliding...etc...
A slow process of rocks getting dropped in another place by water, wind, and ice.
What is deposition?
An area of land that is completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
A large hill made of sand created by erosion and deposition.
What is a sand dune?
What happens when the ocean breaks rocks into smaller and smaller pieces.
What is a sandy beach?
What does the root word "geo" mean?
earth/land
What is the most common type of volcano?
Cone Volcano (composite)