Three important kinds of landforms are
mountains, lakes, and rivers or plains, plateaus, and rivers or mountains, plains, and plateaus or lakes, oceans, and bays.
What are mountains, plains, and plateaus?
100
All of the following changes can happen quickly EXCEPT earthquakes, weathering, volcanoes erupting, or avalanches.
What is are avalanches?
100
A place where the land meets the ocean is a what?
What is a coast?
200
Magma is a rock that has become what?
What is thick and hot?
200
During an earthquake, do all of the following EXCEPT cover your head, stay away from objects that can fall, run from a building, or sit under a table or against an inside wall.
What is run from a building?
200
All landforms are shaped by some kind of what?
What is force?
200
The force that does NOT cause erosion is river action, gravity, wind, or electricity.
What is electricity?
200
A huge mass of moving ice is a what?
What is a glacier?
300
As lava erupts and spread, a volcano gets what?
What is taller and taller?
300
The movement of the blocks that make up the earth's surface can cause a what?
What is an earthquake?
300
A high place with a rounded top is a what?
What is a hill?
300
Much soil is held in place by what?
What are plants and tree roots?
300
A steep wall or rock or soil is a what?
What is a cliff?
400
Magma erupts from the Earth's what?
What is cracks?
400
What out in space can pick up warning signs that an earthquake might happen?
What are satellites?
400
A low area between mountains is a what?
What is a valley?
400
A danger in traveling through mountains is what?
What is falling rocks?
400
A moving stream of water flowing into a lake or ocean is a what?
What is a river?
500
What islands were formed from volcanoes that reached the ocean's surface?
What are Hawaii and Japan?
500
Often during or just before the erution of a volcano, a what can occur?