Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
Stream beds carved out over time by moving water is an example of what.
What is erosion?
This forms from flowing lava that has cooled. It is wider than it is tall.
What is a shield volcano?
This is what magma is called once it exits the earth's crust.
What is lava?
This is a mound or hill of sand formed by wind.
What is a sand dune?
This is a hill with steep sides and a flat top and smaller than a mesa.
What is a butte?
These rocks contain fossils.
What are sedimentary rocks?
This is a low area between mountains. Rivers make V-shaped ones and glaciers make U-shaped ones.
What is a valley?
A place where lava, ash and gases escape from openings in Earth's crust.
What is a volcano?
True or False
Volcanoes only happen on mountains
What is false?
This is what causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and uplift
What is the movement of Tectonic Plates?
This a wide, flat-topped hill. It has at least one steep side.
What is a mesa?
This rock is larger than a cobble.
What is a boulder?
This is a deep V-shaped valley eroded by rivers.
What is a a canyon?
This is a high, steep area of land. Some of these are volcanoes.
What is a mountain?
Earth's water supply is made up of 2 types of water.
What are fresh & salt water?
This volcano forms from different kinds of eruptions. Layers of cinders, lava and ash build up into a mountain.
What is a composite volcano?
When there is an earthquake in the ocean causing the crust to shift it creates a huge wave called a this.
What is a tsunami?
This is an area of high, nearly flat land and covers a lot of area.
What is a plateau?
When earth is moved by wind, water, or gravity.
What is erosion?
This is a fan-shaped deposit of earth materials. It forms at the mouth of a river or stream.
What is a delta?
This is an area at the edge of a lake or the ocean. It is often sandy.
What is a beach?
It forms when cinders or pieces of lava burst out of Earth in an eruption.
What is a cinder cone?
Earthquakes can cause damage to these types of structures.
What are buildings, roads, bridges?
This is low, flat, level land. They are found in the center of the United States.
What is a plain?
This is why the bottom of the ocean is sandy.
What is deposition?
A hardness scale measures how easy it is to do what to a rock?
What is scratch or make a scratch?
Liquid
Solid
Gas
What are the 3 states of water?
This is made up of rocks that are tinier than sand.
What is clay?
This coast of the North America is most often affected by earthquakes.
What is the west coast?
Rocks are made of different kinds of these.
What are minerals?