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Weathering
Erosion
Earthquakes and Volcanos
100
Occurs when acid in rainwater changes rock.
What is weathering?
100
Many earthquakes are caused by plate movement along it.
What is a fault?
100
Only the size of rocks is changed when it occurs.
What is physical weathering?
100
The part of trees or plants growing on a hill to control erosion.
What are the roots?
100
The reason why most earthquakes occur.
What is plate movement along a fault line?
200
Hot magma moves upward and erupts from this landform.
What is a volcano?
200
The place on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is an epicenter?
200
In cold areas water from rain or melting snow seeps into cracks and freezes.
What is weathering by ice?
200
The kind of waves that cause erosion.
What is ocean waves?
200
Hot lava and the ground shaking are what might be experienced while in Hawaii.
What is a description of an eruption of a volcano?
300
Gravity causes the rapid downhill movement of rock and soil when this happens.
What is landslide?
300
Underground rock suddenly shifts and Earth's crust shakes.
What is an earthquake?
300
This is something that happens gradually.
What is weathering?
300
A result of deposition.
What is a delta?
300
The climate can be affected by this event.
What is a volcano eruption?
400
A plateau is an example.
What is a landform?
400
Sand Dunes may results from it by wind.
What is deposition?
400
A change when rock's surface gets hotter, it expands or grows larger, or when it gets colder the surface contracts.
What is temperature changes?
400
Materials that are removed from rock by weathering can be carried to a new place with this process.
What is erosion?
400
Described as active or dormant.
What is a volcano?
500
An example is glaciers dragging rock and soil.
What is erosion?
500
An earthquake scale of comparing the size of the waves, usually between 0 and 10.
What is magnitude?
500
When is rains, the acid combines with rock material to form this kind of change.
What is chemical weathering?
500
When this landform melts, movement of rock and soil occurs.
What is glaciers?
500
Many volcanos are located near the Pacific Ocean, the east coast of Asia, and the west coasts of North and South America because of this.
What are locations where the Earth's crust has many cracks and weak spots?