Landforms
Vocabulary
Disasters
Weathering
100
This landform is always found near the coast and is surround by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
This happens to Earth all the time and is why rocks break into smaller rocks
What is weathering?
100
These can bring flooding.
What is a hurricane?
100
These are 4 things that cause weathering.
What is wind, water, ice, temperature, chemicals, living things?
200
This is created by a river over millions of years.
What is canyon or valley?
200
An example of this term is: water moving rocks and soil down hill in a river
What is erosion?
200
This brings a lot of ash, smoke, and lava.
What is a volcano?
200
This is physical weathering.
What is when the rock gets smaller but does not change?
300
This describes an active volcano.
What is a volcano that erupts frequently?
300
This is caused by rapid downhill movement of a LARGE amount of rock and soil.
What is landslide?
300
This is what causes loose rock and soil to move downhill.
What is gravity?
300
This is when the rock gets smaller and it changes.
What is chemical weathering?
400
This is what a mountain would look like after a volcano erupts from it.
What is the top is blown off/no peak?
400
These TWO things are caused by erosion on a mountain.
What is a landslide and a avalanche?
400
This is what causes an earthquake.
What is movement of plates crashing into each other.
400
This is how weathering changes landforms.
What is breaks rocks into smaller ones.
500
It might be dangerous to build your house on the side of a mountain for this reason.
What is landslide (can come down on the house or loose rock underneath can cause the house to slide down the mountain)?
500
Large mountains made up of snow and ice.
What is a glacier?
500
An earthquake can cause these 3 disasters.
What is avalanche, landslide, tsunami?
500
This is an example of physical weathering.
What is water (waves crashing on the shore, a river constantly moving against rocks); ice (freezing and melting causing cracks in rocks to get bigger and eventually break apart)