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Landforms
Layers of the Earth
Miscellanious
100
What type of island is formed from the remains of tiny sea animals?
What is a coral island
100
The dropping of soil and rock by rivers
What is deposition
100
What land form has mostly flat land?
What are plains
100
The Earth's crust is made up of ___________ that can collide or move away from each other.
What are plates
100
What happens when a tree’s wood is replaced by rock?
It becomes petrified
200
The remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago
What is a fossil
200
what is formed when two plates collide?
What is a mountain
200
What are the two types of low lands?
What are canyons and valleys
200
What Earth layer has the continents?
What is the crust
200
What volcano has sloping sides?
What is a shield volcano?
300
The shape of landforms in an area
What is topography
300
What happens when two plates on the ocean floor collide?
A volcano is created
300
What type of island is formed where waves deposit sand near the shore?
What is a barrier island?
300
Why is the inner core of the Earth solid?
Because of great pressure
300
a fossil footprint is an example of what type of fossil?
What is a trace fossil
400
A large moving mass of ice
What is a glacier
400
What is the line where two plates meet called?
What is a fault line
400
What is the difference between a canyon and a valley?
Canyon - rocky, steep walls, narrow floor Valley - sloping walls, wide floor, made from soil
400
What occurs along fault lines?
What are earthquakes?
400
Most fossils form in __________________
What is sedimentary rock
500
A landform much higher, at least 1600 feet, than the land around it
What is a mountain
500
What 2 landforms are formed by the movement of sand and sediment?
What are deltas and dunes
500
The shape of landforms in an area
What is topography
500
What part of the earth would you find melted rock?
What is the mantle?
500
Which volcano has steep sides and shoots chunks of rock into the air?
What is a cinder cone?