Landforms
Continents
Water
Earth
Misc.
100
A wide area of level flat land. Best used for farming
What is a plain?
100
This is the largest continent?
What is Asia?
100
This covers 71% of the planet
What is water?
100
The thin outer layer of the earth
What is the crust?
100
Deep cracks in the earth's surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions
What is a fault?
200
A relatively flat area, but it rises abruptly above surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
200
This continent is where we live
What is North America?
200
Has 15,000 miles of navigable water
What is the Mississippi River System?
200
We believe this is primarily metallic iron and nickel and can reach 9000 degrees
What is the inner core?
200
A mountain building force by leaving deposits that harden and build up
What is a volcano?
300
Mt. Everest is the highest of these landforms
What are mountains?
300
This continent is home to Mt. Killimanjaro
What is Africa?
300
Rivers are compared using these categories
What are length, drainage, discharge, and navigability?
300
This layer is composed of very hot dense rock
What is the mantle?
300
Rock is weakened by the constant action of
What is weathering?
400
Each variation in the landscape is called this.
What is a landform?
400
This continent can also be called Oceania due to the many islands that surround it.
What is Australia
400
A river and all its.....
What is a tributary?
400
This layer spins around the inner core. This movement causes the earth's magnetism
What is outer core?
400
slip, thrust, and fold
What are types of tectonic activity?
500
This is sediment carried through rivers and deposited in the plains.
What is alluvium?
500
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Australia, Europe
What are the continents of the world?
500
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Artic
What are the world's major ocean?
500
Crust, mantle, inner core, outer core
What are the layers of the earth?
500
The name of the solid landmass before the flood
What is Pangea