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Earth's features
Sudden changes to earth
Weathering and erosion
Visual Summary
Critical Thinking
100
This is a large body of salt water.
What is an ocean?
100
This is a sudden movement of the rocks that make up Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
100
This is the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces and it usually happens so slowly you do not see it.
What is weathering?
100
Most of earth is covered with this.
What is water?
100
Mountains, valleys, and canyons are all examples of this.
What are landforms?
200
Earth has seven great areas of land called this.
What is a continent?
200
This is a mountain that builds up around an opening in Earth's crust and it sometimes explodes.
What is a volcano?
200
This is the movement of weathered rock.
What is erosion?
200
This ocean floor has features similar to this.
What is earth's land features.
200
A trench, abyssal plain, and seamount are found on this.
What is the ocean floor?
300
This is what a land feature is called.
What is a landform?
300
This is the rapid movement of rocks and soil down a hill.
What is a landslide?
300
This is a mass of ice that moves slowly across the land.
What is a glacier?
300
Earth is made up of three main layers; the crust, mantle, and this.
What is the core?
300
This layer of the earth is like the shel of an egg because it is very thin.
What is the crust?
400
This is the earth's thinnest and coolest layer.
What is the crust?
400
This is water that flows over land that i usually dry.
What is a flood?
400
This is the dropping off of weathered rock.
What is deposition?
400
Along with weathering and erosion, ________ can cause changes to the land.
What are people?
400
This is what people cause when they dig in the ground, break up rocks, and expose them.
What is weathering?
500
This is the layer of the earth below the crust.
What is the mantle?
500
This is melted rock that sometimes moves up through a large crack int he crust and flows onto land.
What is magma?
500
An example of a glacier is Turner Glacier found in this state.
What is Alaska?
500
This is where the Panama Canal was carved out of.
What is Culebra Mountain?
500
This helps to prevent soil erosion.
What is planting trees?