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Landforms
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Shaping Earth's Surface
100
A mountain is an example of one of these
What is a landform?
100
A crack in the Earth's crust
What is a fault?
100
The magma that comes up through Earth's surface and hardens
What is lava
100
Sudden movement of Earth's Crust
What is an earthquake?
100
The process by which weathered rock moves from one place to another is
What is erosion?
200
Abysmal plains, trenches, and rift valleys are located here
What is on the ocean floor?
200
A person that studies the Earth's structure and history
What is a geologist?
200
Magma flows through an opening in Earth's crust
What is a volcano?
200
This can occur as a result of an earthquake that happens under the ocean
What is a tsunami?
200
This is an important factor in chemical weathering
What is acid rain?
300
This layer of the earth is made up ofliquid metal
What is the outer core?
300
The idea that scientist use to explain why some landforms are far apart and separated by oceans are related
What is continental drift?
300
A stationary pool of magma that forms below Earth's crust is called this
What is a hot spot?
300
The earthquakes often occur along these
What is a fault?
300
When a river form S-curves it does this
What is meander?
400
The area around the Earth that contains gases
What is the atmosphere?
400
The force that occurs when plates are pushed together
What is compression?
400
A volcano usually has at least one of these that gases escape through
What is a vent?
400
This scale measures how strong the waves of the earthquake were
What is the Richter scale?
400
Walls that are used to hold water back
What is a levee?
500
Living things are located on this layer of the Earth
What is the crust?
500
The name of the theoretical supercontinent that existed
What is Pangea?
500
Volcanoes occur mainly along the edges of these
What is a tectonic plate?
500
The scale that measures the damage caused to people and buildings
What is the Mercalli Scale?
500
Wind, water and gravity cause this type of weathering
What is physical?