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Vocabulary
Landforms
Landforms
The Cause of Change
Fossils
100
This is a natural feature in the Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
100
With this landform, you would see mostly flat land.
What is a plain?
100
This volcano has gently sloping sides when lava flows out.
What is a shield volcano?
100
This is where most earthquakes happen.
What is along faults?
100
This is what replaces the wood in petrified wood.
What is rock?
200
This landform is much higher than the land around it.
What is a mountain?
200
This landform has steep walls on its side.
What is a canyon?
200
This volcano has steep sides and shoots out chunks of rock into the air.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
200
This type of glaciers flow down mountian valleys.
What is alpine glacier?
200
This the information about Earth's history that is contained in fossils.
What is a fossil record?
300
This is the dropping of soil and rock by rivers/
What is deposition?
300
When a river moves soil and sediment and deposits it into a lake or ocean, this is formed.
What is a delta?
300
This layer of earth holds all the continents and the oceans.
What is the crust?
300
This type of glacier covers large areas like Antarctica.
What is an ice sheet glacier?
300
Most fossils form in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
With this landform, lava flows on Earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
400
When wind moves sand and drops it, this can form.
What is a dune?
400
You would find melted rock in this layer of Earth.
What is the mantle?
400
These are what rivers flow through.
What are valleys?
400
This is the remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago.
What is a fossil?
500
This is a large moving mass of ice.
What is a glacier?
500
This is a body of land completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
500
This causes the Earth's core to remain solid.
What is pressure?
500
This can form when two ocean plates collide.
What are volcanoes?
500
This fossil doesn't show the whole plant or animal, but it tells something about it.
What is a trace fossil?