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Volcanoes
Earth
Change
Landforms
Wild
100
Hot liquid that comes out of a volcano
What is lava?
100
The rock around the outside of the earth.
What is the crust?
100
The physical breaking up of rocks into smaller pieces of rock or sand.
What is weathering?
100
A body of land entirely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
100
Large land masses of the earth.
What are the continents?
200
Red hot melted rock that pushes up earth's surface
What is magma?
200
Made of hot solid metal (the size of the moon)
What is the inner core?
200
A thick layer of ice that causes a U shaped valley when it moves.
What is a glacier?
200
Low land between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
200
Body of salt water that covers 3/4 of the earth.
What is the ocean?
300
Mountain formed by hot rock and ashes that is likely to or is erupting.
What is an active volcano?
300
Made of liquid metal.
What is the outer core?
300
The process of moving sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
300
Flat or almost flat land.
What is a plain?
300
It happens when rock below the surface of the earth is squeezed and this pressure is released.
What is an earthquake?
400
Most volcanoes happen here
What is at the junction of tectonic plates
400
Made of hot pasty rock.
What is the mantle?
400
When the layers of the earth's surface are pushed up by forces of heat and pressure. It increases the power of erosion.
What is uplift?
400
An isolated hill with a flat top and even sides. A large one might be called a mesa or a plateau.
What is a butte?
400
A break or weakness in the rock of the earth's crust.
What is a fault?
500
A theory says that gas from volcanoes produced this layer of gar around the earth.
What is the earth's atmosphere?
500
The study of landforms, bodies of water, natural resources and climate.
What is geography?
500
The dropping of sand and rock carried by wind, water, or melting ice.
What is deposition?
500
Land nearly surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
500
Large sections of the crust and upper mantle that fit together like a puzzle.
What are the tectonic plates?