Earth's Landforms
Mountains, valleys, deserts, and rivers are example of
What are landforms?
A scientist who studies Earth's structure is called
What is a geologist?
Hot rock that sometimes erupts through openings in Earth's surface is called
What is a volcano?
A sudden movement of Earth's crust is a
What is an earthquake?
The process that breaks down rock into small pieces is called
What is weathering?
____ the crust and the top of the upper mantle form this Earth layer.
What is the lithosphere?
Melted rock is called
What is magma?
A cup shaped depression that forms around a volcano's vent.
What is a crater?
A large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake is called
What is a tsunami?
I am a huge mass of rock. I erode the rock beneath me as I flow over it.
What is a glacier?
The largest landform under the ocean is an ocean _____
What is a basin?
The force that twists, tears, or pushes one part of the crust past another is called
What is shear?
A broad volcano with gently sloping slides formed from thin, fluid lava.
What is a shield volcano?
The slowest moving waves that move across Earth's surface like ripples on a pond are called
What are surface or L waves?
I am a gentle loop in a slow-flowing river. What am I ?
What is a meander
The sharp drop from the continental shelf to the continental rise is the ____
What is the continental slope?
Theory discovered by geologist Alfred Wegener is called
What is continental drift?
A large, cone- shaped volcano built from alternating layers of cinders and hardened lava.
What is composite volcano?
The scale that measures the magnitude of an earthquake is called the_____ scale.
What is the Richter scale?
When rock's composition is broken down and changed, ________ occurs
What is chemical weathering?
The layer of air that surrounds Earth is called ____
What is atmosphere?
Force that occurs when plates are pushed together is called
What is compression?
A cone-shaped volcano of cinders, with a narrow base and steep sides is called
What is cinder- cone volcano?
The epicenter of an earthquake is the place on the surface...
What is directly above the focus?
Temperature changes and ice expanding in cracks break down rocks in the process of
What is physical weathering?