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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Earth Processes
100
A natural shape or feature of Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
100
Landform of sand and other material deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
100
Process of moving sediment by wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
100
This geographical feature was formed by water erosion. After many years, the Colorado River carved through this structure.
What is the Grand Canyon?
200
A wall-like structure that sticks out into the ocean.
What is a jetty?
200
A hill of sand formed and shaped by wind.
What is a sand dune?
200
Process of wearing away rocks by natural means.
What is weathering?
200
These form when weathering eats away pockets of limestone underground.
What is a cave?
300
Molten rock beneath Earth's surface.
What is magma?
300
All the kinds of landforms in a certain place.
What is topography?
300
A wall of earth or concrete built along the banks of a waterway.
What is a levee?
300
The building of jetties to protect beaches and the replacing of sand due to erosion.
What is beach reclamation/restoration?
400
Created by the collapse of an underground cave.
What is a sinkhole?
400
A mountain made of lava and ash that forms as molten rock flows through a crack in Earth's crust.
What is a volcano?
400
This holds back water to form lakes, or the waters would flow downstream and flood low-lying areas.
What is a dam?
400
The study of earthquakes and recording movement in Earth's crust to locate an earthquake's epicenter.
What are seismological studies?
500
Movement in the ground created by a sudden release of energy in Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
500
A break in Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
500
The process when sediment is picked up and dropped or deposited in a new location.
What is deposition?
500
The building of dams and levees to keep rising floodwaters within channels.
What is flood control?