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Volcanoes
Earth
Change
Landforms
Wild
100
hot liquid that comes out of a volcano
What is lava?
100
rock layer around the outside of earth
What is the crust?
100
physical breaking up of rocks into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
100
body of land entirely surrounded by water
What is an island?
100
large land masses of Earth
What are continents?
200
red hot melted rock that pushes up earth's surface
What is magma?
200
layer of the earth 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 most of Earth
What is the ocean?
300
A mountain formed by hot rock and ashes that is likely to or is erupting.
What is an active volcano?
300
layer of the earth 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
result of a release of pressure along a fault line
What is an earthquake?
400
An area in the Pacific where a lot of volcanoes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
layer made of hot pasty rock
What is mantle?
400
the lifting of Earth's surface by forces of heat and pressure
What is uplift?
400
an isolated hill with a flat top and even sides
What is a butte?
400
a crack in the earth's crust where rock has moved
What is a fault?
500
Ocean trenches and ridges are formed.
What happens when two oceanic plates pull apart?
500
the study of landforms, bodies of water, natural resources and climate of the earth
What is geography?
500
the dropping of sand and rock carried by wind, water, or melting ice
What is deposition?
500
occurs when two continental plates come together
What is a folded mountain?
500
movement along the boundaries of these areas cause volcanoes and earthquakes
What are tectonic plates.