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Vocabulary
Erosion & Weathering
Gravity, Landslides, & Avalanches
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
100
A shaking of Earth's crust caused by sudden movements at a fault.
What is an earthquake?
100
The movement of weathered pieces of rock by water, ice, and wind.
What is erosion?
100
Large amounts of snow and ice that fall rapidly down a mountain.
What is avalanches?
100
Forms at a weak spot in Earth's crust where magma reaches the surface.
What is a volcano?
100
Sudden movement that causes Earth's crust to shake.
What is an earthquake?
200
A rapid downhill movement of a large amount of rock and soil.
What is a landslide?
200
Ice, Wind, Water, Gravity
What are the four types of erosion?
200
Buildings, cars, trees, and other objects are sometimes carried along this.
What is landslide?
200
Shape of Volcanoes?
What is cone-shaped?
200
The point on Earth's surface that is directly above the focus.
What is an epicenter?
300
A break in rock where Earth's crust can move.
What is a fault?
300
The process in which rocks are broken into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
300
Pulls everything down to the Earth.
What is gravity?
300
Hot melted rock that forms underground.
What is magma?
300
Huge ocean waves.
What is a tsunami?
400
This type of weathering causes rock to break, but it changes the material that makes up a rock.
What is chemical weathering?
400
Occurs when forces split, break, or wear away rock.
What is physical weathering?
400
Growing plants, terracing, and building coastal barriers
What is controlling erosion?
400
Magma is called WHAT when it erupts out of a volcano?
What is lava?
400
What is the cause of most earthquakes?
What is plate movement along a fault?
500
The smallest pieces of soil.
What is silt?
500
The laying down of pieces of Earth's surface.
What is deposition?
500
Slows the speed of water running downhill.
What is terraces?
500
A volcano that has frequent eruptions or shows signs of future eruptions is called what?
What is active?
500
Name a place where earthquakes are common.
What is California, Mexico, the West coast!