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More Vocab.
Misc.
100
a deep valley with very steep sides
What is a canyon?
100
the way rocks are broken down into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
100
an opening in Earth's surface from which lava and ash flow
What is a volcano?
100
a hot, fast moving liquid erupting from a volcano
What is lava?
100
the center of the Earth
What is the core?
200
a thin island near a coast
What is a barrier island?
200
wind, water and plant roots
What are 3 things that weather landforms?
200
shaking of the Earth's surface caused ny movement of the crust
What is an earthquake?
200
liquid rock inside a volcano
What is magma?
200
the layer of the Earth under the crust that the plates float on
What is the mantle?
300
a flat area on Earth's surface
What is a plain?
300
the movement of weathered rock and soil
What is erosion?
300
a large amount of water that covers normally dry land
What is a flood?
300
these only travel about one foot per day
What is a glacier?
300
a lowland area between high lands
What is a valley?
400
a place on Earth's surface that is much higher than the land around it
What is a mountain?
400
the slowest type of erosion
What is creep, or gravity?
400
leaves a new layer of soil on the land
What are floods?
400
the very slow movement of soil down steep hills
What is creep?
400
glaciers scoop out holes in the land that can become these
What are lakes?
500
a flat area that is higher than the land around it
What is a plateau?
500
erosion caused by ice scraping up rocks and soil
What are glaciers?
500
can cause huge waves called tsunamis
What are earthquakes?
500
the layer of the Earth that we live on
What is the crust?
500
these pieces of the Earth float on top of the mantle
What are (tectonic) plates?