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A physical feature of the earth's surface
What is a landform?
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The process of moving sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
100
Water and wind are agents in this.
What is erosion?
100
The outer most area of the earth.
What is the crust?
100
The molten rock found in earth's mantle.
What is magma?
200
Thick sheet of ice
What is a glacier?
200
The shaking of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy in Earth's crust.
What is an Earthquake?
200
the process of dropping sediment in a new location.
What is deposition?
200
The place you find the youngest rock layers?
What is on the top of the mountain/Valley?
200
The part of the earth made of solid iron?
What is the inner core?
300
The process of breaking down rock into silt, sand, clay, and other tiny pieces.
What is weathering?
300
The "supercontinent" containing all of Earth's continents that existed 225 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
300
A mass movement when soil slowly moves downhill due to gravity.
What is creep?
300
A volcano that is wide with steep slopes and is lava and ash
What is a composite volcano?
300
A volcano with broad, gentle slopes. It is mostly lava.
What is a Shield volcano?
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A downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity.
What is a Mass Movement?
400
The remains or traces of past life found in some rocks.
What are fossils?
400
A scientist who studies fossils.
What is a palentologist?
400
Types of Glaciers that change earth's surface
What are valley and continental glaciers?
400
Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
What are the four layers of the earth?
500
The scale used to measure the strength of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
500
The theory of how Earth's continents move over its surface.
What is Continental Drift?
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The place where pieces of the earth Move.
What is a fault?
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The name of the northern continent that formed when Pangea broke apart.
What is a Laurasia?
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The name of the southern continent when Pangea broke apart?
What is Gondwana?