A mountain built by lava is a
a. range
b. glacier
c. volcano
d. plateau
c. volcano
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What landform is the largest body of water on earth?
An ocean
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The top layer of the earth is the
a. plate
b. mantle
c. core
d. crust
d. crust
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The movement of rocks and soil is call
a. weathering
b. erosion
c. fossilizing
d. faulting
b.erosion
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The breaking and wearing away of rocks is called
a. erosion
b. decomposition
c. sediment
d. weathering
d. weathering
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What landform is water that is completely surrounded by land?
a. valley
b. lake
c. island
d. delta
lake
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What landform is land that is completely surrounded by water?
island
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What layer of the earth is letter a?
crust
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What causes an earthquake?
a. Sections of earth fall where erosion has taken place
b. Magma from the mantle forces its way up through the crust
c. Weathering breaks rock sections
d. Rocks bend and break at places along a fault
d. Rocks bend and break at places along a fault
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What do scientist study changes in the earth's crust and causes of earthquakes?
a. to fix faults
b. to prevent earthquakes from occurring
c. to predict faults
d. to predict where earthquakes might occur
d. to predict where earthquakes might occur
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What landform is a long, flowing body of water?
river
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What landform is the area where the ocean touches the land?
Coast
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Melted rock inside the earth is calls
a. mantle
b. magma
c. lava
d. igneous
b. magma
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What are glaciers?
a. large masses of moving snow and ice
b. mountains at the north and south poles
c. high, cold plateaus
d. winter snow on a mountain
a. large masses of moving snow and ice
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What is new land called that is formed when a river empties into a lake or ocean?
a. a hill
b. a delta
c. a plateau
d. a flatland
b. a delta
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What landform is a flat ear on earth's surface?
plaine
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What landform is high flatlands?
plateaus
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The large sections of the earth's crust that move over melted rock in the mantle are called
a. plates
b. tremors
c. landforms
d. mountains
a. plates
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The readings on a seismograph measure the strength of
a. weathering
b. earthquakes
c. volcanoes
d. rocks
b. earthquakes
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Melted rock on the earth's surface is
a. lava
b. mantle
c. sediment
d. magma
a. lava
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What landform is a low land area between higher land such as mountains?
valley
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What landform is a land that is surrounded by water on three sides?
peninsula
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What layer of the earth is letter b?
mantle
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Cracks in the earth's surface along which rocks move are
a. faults
b. tremors
c. eruptions
d. volcanoes
a. faults
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Evidence of past glacier movements are seen in
a. sand dunes
b. floating ice
c. huge boulders
d. flooding