Show:
Erosion & Topography
Water
Landforms
Vocabulary
Miscelaneous
100
What is the process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces
Weathering
100

An inland body of fresh water

a lake

100
What is a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
landslide
100
What are lines that show elevation on a topographic map?

contour lines

100

the movement of tectonic plates mostly causes...

volcanic eruptions and earthquakes

200
What is the moving of weathered material
Erosion
200

What is a large mass of ice that moves very slowly down a mountain.

glacier

200

a large, low area of flat or rolling land with few trees

a plain
200

When is the term given to describe tectonic plates that move away from each other?

Divergent

200
This is what happens to erosion when the slope of a hill is steep
there is more erosion/ speeds up erosion
300

Waht are chunks of the lithosphere that move along the molten mantle?

tectonic plates

300

What are three types of erosion? 

Wind, water and ice erosion.

300
What is a natural shape or feature of land
landform
300
What is a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level
plateau
300
What happens to erosion when there is lots of vegetation on a hill?
It slows erosion/ There is less erosion
400

topographic maps show what?

elevation.

400

What is a deep valley with steep sides often carved by a river

a canyon

400
What is the force responsible for mass movement
gravity
400

What is the term given to tectonic plates that slide past each other? 

Transform boundary.

400
This is the type of erosion you would see most in the desert
Wind erosion
500
What is small pieces of weathered rock such as gravel, sand and pebbles
Sediment
500

This is responsible for carving the Grand Canyon

Colorado River

500

Earthquakes are formed by what boundary? 

transform

500
What is a map that shows land features on Earth
Topographic Map
500

What do you call tectonic plates that move towards each other? 

convergent