Earth's Landforms
The largest body of saltwater.
What is the ocean?
A geologist studies these things.
What are rocks, the Earth, and history?
This is where most volcanoes are found.
What are plate boundaries?
What is magnitude?
This is a large mass of slowly moving ice.
What is a glacier?
A flat area of land that is higher than the ground around it.
What is a plateau?
This term is the theory that explains how forces in Earth's surface cause ocean floors to spread and continents to move.
What is plate tectonics?
This is the name of a circle of volcanoes that surround the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
What is a tsunami?
This is the process through which rocks or other materials are broken down.
What is weathering?
A small river or stream that meets with another river or body of water.
What is a tributary?
This is the name for a deep crack in Earth's surface.
What is a fault?
This is the type of volcanic formation that Hawaii is.
What is an island chain?
What is at plate boundaries/at fault lines?
This type of event occurs due to the effects of gravity on a landscape.
What are mudslides, and landslides?
The mass of land that forms at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
This is the name of the scientist who developed the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This is the difference between magma and lava.
What is lava is found outside the volcano and magma is found inside the volcano?
This is the name of the spot directly above where an earthquake begins underground.
What is the epicenter?
This is a gentle loop in a slow-moving river.
What is a meander?
The narrow body of water off of a larger body of water.
What is an inlet?
The 3 pieces of evidence help prove that Pangea once existed.
What are freshwater fish fossils and rocks layers that match in both South America and Africa, and the fact that South America and Africa fit together like a puzzle piece?
These are the 3 types of volcanoes.
What are shield, composite, and cinder-cone volcanoes?
This is the name of the location that an earthquake begins.
What is a focus?
These are the 5 forces that cause weathering.
What are glaciers, wind, running water, gravity, and waves?