How Landforms Came to Be
Earth's Surface is Made up of mostly what?
Water
Molten Rock is called:
Magma
A crack in Earth's crust along which movement occurs is called:
Fault
How many Continents are there currently?
7
Name a large landform.
Mountain
What is the Earth's Largest Volcano that erupts?
Mauna Loa
Magma that has reached the surface is called:
Lava
Where is the Karakoram Range?
Pakistan
Name a small landform.
Mound in a park
Volcanoes have many shapes and sizes: True or False
True
A possible explanation of something is:
A theory
What is Pangaea
An ancient supercontinent.
Earth's surface is made up of several large, slow-moving slabs, or plates...what theory is this?
Plate Tectonics Theory
How are volcanoes classified?
By how often they erupt.
Continental Drift
Earth is made up of layers. What are they layers named?
Crust, inner core, and outer core.
How is magma formed?
Sometimes when two of Earth's plates push against each other, the edge of one plate slides beneath the other. As rock in the upper plate is pushed up, rock in the lower plate is pushed down into Earth's mantle. Heat within the mantle causes rock in the lower plate to melt.
What is the mantle?
The mantle is the layer next to the earth's crust.