You would most likely find this landform near a river's mouth.
What is a delta?
100
A movement of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy in Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
100
A mountain made of lava, ash, or other materials from eruptions.
What is a volcano?
200
A hill of sand, shaped by the wind.
What is a sand dune?
200
These are two types of landforms formed by water.
What is mesa, canyons.
200
This process most often creates a canyon.
What is water erosion?
200
This layer of the Earth contains soft areas on which plates float.
What is the mantle?
200
Molten rock under Earth's surface.
What is magma?
300
A wall-like structure that traps sand and small rocks.
What is a jetty?
300
These are two types of landforms that are formed by sand.
What is sand dune, sand bar.
300
This is used to help protect a beach by preventing the current from carrying away sand.
What is a jetty?
300
Plate movement is responsible for these two natural occurrences.
What are earthquakes and volcanoes?
300
The Hawaiian Islands were formed by a plate moving over this.
What is a hot spot?
400
A break in Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
400
This is how volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountains are similar.
What is they are all formed by natural processes and all can be formed by movement of Earth's plates.
400
Give an example of weathering.
What is a plant growing a crack in a rock?
400
This is why seismologists use GPS technology.
What is to measure the movement of faults during an earthquake?
400
These two plate movements cause volcanoes.
What is plates pushing against each other and plates moving away from each other.
500
All the kinds of landforms in a certain place.
What is topography?
500
This is one of Georgia's geologic regions. Describe the region.
What is Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge, the Piedmont, Coastal Plain.
500
Name and describe one way that humans restore beaches.
What is humans dredge (or scoop out) channels and spread out the sand so that the beach has the correct slope. OR Humans build jetties (wall-like structures) that trap sand and small rocks. This blocks the current from depositing more sand onto beaches.
500
These three types of plate movement cause earthquakes.
What is plates pushing together, plates sliding past each other, and plates pulling apart.
500
These are three types of volcanoes.
What are composite, shield, and cinder cone volcanoes?