Vocab
The dropping of soil and rock by rivers
deposition
A __________ are the remains or traces of organisms that lived long ago.
fossil
A landform that has higher land around it but also has water running through the bottom.
canyon
Name the 4 main parts of the Earth.
Describe a cinder cone volcano.
small with steep sides, shoots- cinders, ask and chunks of rock
A shaking of the Earth's surface
earthquake
A large, moving mass of ice is called a ___________.
glacier
Where can dunes form?
dry areas, along sandy coasts.
What can you find in the crust?
Earth's landforms, people, oceans and continents.
Describe a composite volcano
made of lava, rock and ask, steep peaks and very explosive.
A landform that forms where lava flows on Earth's surface
volcano
_____________ is the shape of landforms in an area.
topography
________________ are flat lands and can have gently rolling surfaces. They do not have highlands for deep valleys.
plains
What can you find in the mantel?
slabs of rock called plates.
Describe a shield volcano.
erupts slowly, has sloping sides.
A landform much higher than the land around it
mountain
The _______________ is where most earthquakes occur.
faults
Forms at the end of rivers by movement of sediment building up.
What can you find in the outer core?
Liquid rock and made of iron and nickel.
What can you learn from fossils?
what type of food animal could have ate, where an animal lives, how big an animal was ect.
A natural feature of Earth's surface
landform
fossil records
mountain.
What can you find in the inner core?
Which kind of fossil is a dinosaur footprint?
trace fossil