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Vocab #2
Name That Landform
What Am I?
Miscellaneous
100
Molten rock beneath Earth's surface
What is magma?
100
Molten rock that reaches Earth's surface
What is lava?
100
A landform that is much higher than the surrounding land
What is a mountain?
100
I am the layer of Earth that is solid metal.
What is the inner core?
100
The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
200
A large, thick sheet of ice
What is a glacier?
200
A hill of sand, made and shaped by the wind
What is a sand dune?
200
A large, flat landform with little relief
What is a plain?
200
I melt holes through the Earth's crust as it moves slowly over me.
What is a hot spot?
200
A movement of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy in Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
300
An area of new land at the mouth of a river, formed from sediments carried by the river
What is a delta?
300
A natural land shape or feature
What is a landform?
300
Scrapes and scratches into rock made by a glacier
What is glacial groove?
300
I am the type of volcano that is very tall and narrow and has steep sides.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
A long, low hill formed by materials carried by a glacier.
What is a moraine?
400
A section of Earth's crust and mantle that fits together with other sectioins like puzzle pieces.
What is a plate?
400
A large hole formed when the roof of a cave collapses
What is a sinkhole?
400
Long, narrow piles of sand that help protect the mainland from wave erosion
What is a sand spit or barrier island?
400
I am the instrument used to measure the intensity of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
400
The layer of Earth containing soft rock on which the plates "float".
What is the mantle?
500
All the kinds of landforms in a certain place
What is topography?
500
A break in Earth's crust
What is a fault?
500
A tall, flat-topped rock feature
What is a mesa?
500
I can cause weathering by releasing chemicals that dissolve certain minerals.
What is a plant?
500
The landform created when the flow of a river slows (NOT a delta).
What is a sandbar?