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Volcanic Activity
Tectonics
Erosion
Glaciation
100
natural forces that change Earth's physical features
What is physical processes?
100
liquid rock
What is lava?
100
a mountain formed when colliding tectonic plates force Earth's crust to wrinkle or fold
What is Fold Mountain?
100
natural processes that break rock into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
100
forms in huge, thick sheets in areas with extremely cold climates
What is continental glaciers?
200
Movement inside the Earth that results in changes in the planet's surface.
What is tectonic movement?
200
People heard it 2,000 miles away
What is Krakatau?
200
a crack in Earth's crust
What is a fault?
200
rivers carve away surrounding land and create this
What is a V-shaped valley?
200
located on Mount Kazbek in the Caucasus Mountains
What is the Kolka Glacier?
300
Thick masses of ice
What are glaciers?
300
made up of molten or liquid rock called magma
What is the mantle?
300
sudden movement of tectonic plates
What is an earthquake?
300
area where a river leaves soil
What is a floodplain?
300
juts into the Arctic Ocean in southwestern Siberia
What is glaciated Yamal Peninsula?
400
Outermost part of Earth
What is the lithosphere?
400
erupted in 1994 with "tremendous force"
What is Kliuchevskoi Volcano?
400
West Sayan range in Russia is an example
What is fault-block mountains?
400
this river flows through the agricultural and industrial heartland of Russia
What is the Volga River?
400
20,000 years ago, this covered one-third of the Earth's surface
What is last ice age?
500
Russia has 24
What are time zones?
500
characterized by a large crater at the top called Triotsky Carter
What is Maly Semyachik Volcano?
500
another name for Mount Manaraga
What is Bear's Paw?
500
anything that is not well rooted or attached will eventually give in to this
What is gravity?
500
rocks and soil left behind
What are moraines