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LANDFORMS
VOLCANOES
EARTHQUAKES
WEATHERING
ROCKS
100
HIGH FLATLAND
What is a plateaus?
100
Melted rock inside the earth.
What is magma?
100
Cracks in the earth's crust along which rocks move.
What are faults?
100
Large masses of moving snow and ice.
What is a glacier?
100
Nonliving materials in rocks are called this.
What are minerals?
200
The top layer of the earth.
What is a crust?
200
Melted rock that has oozed outside of the earth's crust.
What is lava?
200
The process by which rocks are worn down by wind and water is called this.
What is weathering?
200
Rocks that formed from cooling magma.
What are igneous rocks?
300
The large sections of the earth's crust that move over melted rock in the mantle.
What are plates?
300
A mountain built by lava.
What is a volcano?
300
This is a sign that an earthquake is about to take place.
What are changes in water levels, animal behavior, or ground shape?
300
Deltas are made from this.
What are sediments?
300
Small particles of sand, shells, and other materials that are pressed together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
400
Flat parts of land.
What are plains?
400
Scientists use this scale to measure how strong an earthquake is.
What is a Richter Scale?
400
This can weather rocks into many beautiful shapes.
What is wind?
400
Igneous rock that has been changed by heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
500
Mountains, plains and plateaus are some landforms of this.
What is the crust?
500
People in the U.S. and Japan are learning how to use heat from volcanoes for this.
What is electricity?
500
Scientists use this to measure the strenght of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
500
The moving of weathered rocks and soil by wind, water, or ice is called this.
What is erosion?
500
Traces of plants and animals are found in this type of rock.
What are sedimentary rocks?