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Vocabulary
Processes that Change Landforms
Mountains, Volcanoes, and Earthquakes
Changes in Earth's Surface
100
Physical Feature on Earth's Surface
What is landforms?
100
Terminal Moraines and U-Shaped valleys
What are two landforms that can be caused by glaciers?
100
Solid Rock
What is the crust made of?
100
The remains or traces of past life found in sedimentary rock.
What is fossils?
200
Erosion
What is the process of moving sediment from one place to another called?
200
Three kinds of mass movement
What are mudslides, landslides, and creep examples of?
200
Plates
What are ridgid blocks of crust and upper mantle?
200
Theory of Continental Drift
What is the theory of how Earth's continents move over it's surface?
300
The process of breaking rock into soil, sand, and other tiny pieces, or particals called sediment.
What is weathering?
300
kind of landform that can be formed by deposition of sediment from an underwater volcano?
What is an island?
300
Volcano
What is a mountain formed by lava and ash?
300
Pangea
What is a supercontinent that joined all of Earth's present continents?
400
Magma
What is hot, partially molten rock that forms in the Earth's upper mantle called?
400
The down hill movement of rock and soil because of gravity.
What is mass movement?
400
Shaking of ground caused by the sudden release of energy in Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
400
The southern continent that scientist believe existed 200 million years ago.
What is Gondwana?
500
Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
What are the layers of the earth?
500
water, wind, and mass movemnt
What are forces that change landforms?
500
Three ways in which EARTH'S plates interact.
What is they push together, pull apart, and slide past each other?
500
A very popular tourist attraction that is a slice into Earth's history.
What is the Grand Canyon?