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Earth
Volcanoes
Glaciers
Erosion/Weathering
Mystery
100
mantle
What is Earth's thickest layer that is made of melted and solid rock
100
Melted rock inside Earth
What is magma
100
Definition of a glacier and how they form
What is thick sheets of ice that form when more snow falls in winter than melts in summer
100
Rocks break into smaller peices
What is weathering
100
Our Earth was once a Super continent, that is a scientific___
What is theory
200
outer core
What is liquid layer of earth made of melted iron
200
melted rock on Earth's surface
What is lava
200
Currently, scientists say the period of time we live in is an ____ because______
What is interglacial period because we are between glaciers
200
Running water, wind, landslides, glaciers, and waves are all agents of
What is erosion
200
Gradual movements of continents over time
What is continental drift
300
crust
What is the layer of Earth 5 to 20 miles thick
300
volcanoes that have erupted at least once in 10,000 years
What is an an active volcano
300
These are carved out by glaciers and then fill in with water to form lakes when glaciers melt
What is a basin
300
Freezing and thawing water that causes weathering
What is ice wedging
300
List 5 things MI got from glaciers
What is our shape, lakes, sand dues, rivers, rich soil, peninsulas, islands, landforms
400
plate tectonics
What is the study of Earth and how the crust lies in large parts called
400
In order...volcanoes that have not erupted for at least 10,00 years and are not expected too again and then active volcanoes not erupting
What is an extinct volcano and then a dormant volcano
400
These oval shaped mounds are landforms that are left behind by glaciers
What is a drumlin
400
Plant roots that cause weathering
What is root wedging
400
Boulders left behind by glaciers
What is errratics
500
When Earth's plates crash together and rise up
What is a mountain
500
Explain the difference in an eruption, lave explodes because it____________, and lava oozes and flows slowly because __________
What is thick lava and what is runny, thin lava
500
The end of a glacier
What is a terminus
500
List 4 things that create a floodplain and a sandbar
What is sediment, sand, mud, pebbles, silt
500
List 4 types of evidence for MI being covered by a tropical ocean
What is trilobites, petosky stones, salt deposits, fossils, tropical shells