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Is a natural feautre on Earth's surface.
What is a landform
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Is the shaking of Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake
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Is a landform always found on the coast
What is a peninsula
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This is an example of erosion
What is when rainwater moves soil down a mountain
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It runs 800 miles across the state of California and causes small earthquakes.
What is the San Andreas Fault
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Is the laying down of rock, soil, organic matter, or other materials on the surface of the earth.
What is deposition
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Is a cone shaped landform that sometimes releases hot rocks, gases, and ashes.
what is a volcano
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This statement is true about Earth's surface...
What is... that earth's surface is constantly changing
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This how deposition changes Earth's surface
What is the building up of areas on Earths surface.
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Kilauea in Hawaii began its most recent eruption in 1983 and has continued to erupt. How is this volcano classified?
What is an active volcano
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A break or crack in Earth where the rocks on one side have moved relative to the rocks on the other side.
What is a fault
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Is the moving of pieces of soil or rock by mechanisms including gravity, water, wind, ice, plants, or animals.
What is erosion
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What does Earth undergo all of the time
What is weathering
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People place large rocks by the seashore to stop this...
What is erosion
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In many parts of the world, 1816 was called " the year without a summer." What caused this??
What is... Ash from a volcano blocked the sun and caused the temperature to change making it very cold in June. As a result snow began to fall.
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Is the point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is epicenter
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Is the rapid downhill movement of large amounts of rock and soil.
What is a landslide
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This can cause phyiscal weathering
What is water (other answers may work)
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A glacier can erode a landform by doing this.
What is...when it slides across the landform the ice, rock, and soil in the glacier can wear it way.
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The crust is made up of these and they are constantly moving.
What are plates
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Is a gradual wearing away or changing of rock or soil caused by water, ice, temperature changes, wind, chemicals, or living things.
What is weathering
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There are two types of weathering. They are _____ AND ______
What is chemical weathering and physical weathering
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This makes acid rain.
What is when rain mixes with carbon dioxide
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This can cause a volcano to erupt
What is when magma comes through a weak spot in the crust.
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Many volcanoes are near the Pacific Ocean on the east coast of Asia and on the west coasts of North and South America. What can you infer about Earth's crust in these areas.
What is..... the Earth's crust has moving plates in this spot, it has many cracks, and weak spots.