What are the two processes that Earth's features expirience?
What is constructive and destructive processes?
100
What is the difference between a dam and a leeve?
What is a dam is across the river and it collects in an artificial lake, while a leeve is across a river and it prevents flooding?
100
The _______ is the thin, rocky outer layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
200
How do plateaus compare to mountains and hills?
What is they are shorter and have flat tops?
200
What is an example of one of Earth's destructive forces?
What is weathering or erosion?
200
What is a storm Drain"
A. I ple the 5th
B. a drain
C. pipes or channels that move away storm water
D. the drain that leads to an ocean
What is C. pipes or channels that move away storm water?
200
_______ is the movement of sediment from place to place.
What is Erosion?
300
Where is more fresh water found?
What is in glaciers?
300
Name 3 of erosion's agents that impact Earth's surfaces?
What is wind, water, ice, and gravity?
300
What is a flood way?
What is it is a path for flood waters to flow over?
300
The ______ is the point underground where the faulting of an earthquake occurs.
What is the focus?
400
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
What is an underwater mountain chain that has slopes that reach the abyssal plain?
400
How is a cave formed?
What is acids seep into the ground and weather the rock?
400
What is a reservior?
What is an artificial lake beside the river or water source?
400
What is an epicenter?
What is the point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
500
What are contour lines? What do they do?
What are lines on a topographic map that indicate areas with the same elevation.
500
Why do sinkholes collapse? Why do lanslides happen?
What is sinkhole happen when caves underneath loose support and fall?
What is landslides happen because of gravity or when erosion from water loosens sediment?
500
How do you use computer simulations to help inprove levees?
What is they can simulate a flood and how the levee will function in harsh conditions, so scientists can inprove them?
500
What is a topographic map?
What is a map that shows the shape of surface features and their elevations, or heights above sea level.