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A slow destructive process that breaks down rocks.
What is weathering?
100
An event that occurs when gravity quickly pulls rocks and dirt downhill.
What is a landslide?
100
The extension of the continental crust under the ocean.
What is the continental shelf?
100
The area located between the edge of the oceanic crust and a mid ocean ridge.
What is the ocean basin?
100
the daily rising and falling of Earth's waters on its coasts.
What is a tide?
200
The breaking of rock into smaller pieces by gravity, ice, plant roots, or other factors.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
An opening in Earth's crust through which steam, lava, and ashes erupt.
What is a volcano?
200
A steep drop off at the edge of the continental shelf.
What is the continental slope?
200
Landforms found on the continents.
What is continental landforms?
200
The continuous flow of water along a path in the ocean.
What is a current?
300
The changing of material in a rock by a chemical process.
What is Chemical weathering?
300
The shaking of Earth's surface caused by the release of energy along a fault.
What is an earthquake?
300
A long chain of volcanic mountains found at the edges of plates.
What is mid-ocean ridge?
300
Landforms found under the ocean's waters.
What is oceanic landforms?
300
A small island located near a coastline.
What is a barrier island?
400
The movement of material away from one place.
What is erosion?
400
A great flow of water over and area that is usually dry land.
What is a flood?
400
A notch, or valley, between the edges of the plates at a spreading boundary.
What is the rift zone?
400
Two ways that oceanic and continental landforms are similar.
What is both are made of rock and both are formed from constructive and destructive forces?
400
The opening between barrier islands.
What is an inlet?
500
the placing of materials in a new place.
What is deposition?
500
As a river slows down to meet the ocean, it deposits most of the sediments it is carrying. A landform called a ________ is formed.
What is a delta?
500
A deep valley that forms when an ocean plate moves below another plate.
What is an ocean trench.
500
How is a valley on the continent and an ocean trench in the ocean different.
What is ocean trenches are much deeper than valleys on land?
500
Like rivers flowing in an ocean.
What is a current?