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Earth's Layers
Earth's Landforms
Forces Shaping the Earth's Surface
Weathering and Erosion
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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I am the rocky outer layer of the Earth
What is the crust?
100
I am the name for natural shapes of features of the Earth's surface.
What is landforms?
100
I am the name for the landform when all the continents were together in one shape.
What is Pangea?
100
The moving of soil and rock by wind, water, or gravity
What is erosion?
100
I am an event caused by a sudden shift or movement of the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
200
The large bodies of salt water on top of the crust
What is the oceans?
200
I am a landform that rises high above the land on each continent.
What is mountains?
200
When continents drift apart from each other.
What is continental drift?
200
A huge mass of slowly moving ice
What is a glacier?
200
The point on Earth's surface that is directly above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
300
The layer just below the crust.
What is the mantle?
300
I am a broad valley of high, flat land.
What is plateaus?
300
The name for the sheets of rock that are the moving parts of Earth's surface.
What are plates?
300
The dropping of sediment by water, wind or ice.
What is deposition?
300
The place on Earth where the energy of an earthquake is first released.
What is the focus?
400
I am the center of the Earth.
What is the core?
400
I am the name for the low places between mountains or hills.
What are valleys?
400
When two plates collide and one plate sinks below the other
What is subduction?
400
What breaks down rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
400
The hot liquid rock that flows up through a vent to the Earth's surface.
What is magma?
500
I am the two layers of the Earth's core.
What is the inner core and the outer core?
500
I am the name for a deep, narrow river valley
What are canyons?
500
The process by which new oceanic crust is created as plates move apart.
What is ocean-floor spreading?
500
the name for broken down pieces of rock
What is sediment?
500
The part of the Earth's surface that starts to melt before magma is formed
What is the crust?