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?
This agent of erosion causes landslides
What is gravity?
An elevation that is higher than a hill
What is a mountain?
When rocks, dirt, or soil quickly fall down the side of a landform like a mountain or canyon.
What is a landslide?
What are three things that can cause erosion, weathering and deposition?
What are wind, water and ice
A slow process of rocks getting dropped in another place by water, wind, and ice.
What is deposition?
About this much of earth's surface is covered by oceans
What is 70%?
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 is hot liquid inside a volcano called?
What is it called once it reaches the earth's surface?
Magma
Lava`
A strip of land connecting two larger areas on land
What is an isthmus?
An extremely large, forceful wave caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
This occurs what water seeps into the crack of a rock and slipts the rock over time due to expanding from temperature changes.
What is freeze-thaw weathering?
The process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
What is erosion
These are the reason why plants can help slow erosion in sand or soil.
What are roots?
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?
The process of rock breaking apart
What is weathering
What are mountain ranges?