Misc.
How are glaciers formed?
The snow builds up and compresses it turning it into ice.
A sudden shaking or vibrations on Earth’s surface caused by sudden movement on Earth, often along a fault, a break in the Earth’s surface
What is an earthquake
Substance that flows out of volcanoes
What is lava
Deep cracks in the Earth's crust, where blocks slide against one another causing an earthquake
What are faults
The placing of sediment in a new location is called?
Deposition
How are alluvial fans created?
Alluvial fans form when flowing water passes through a narrow gap, such as between mountains, hills, or canyons.
Deep cracks in the Earth's crust, where blocks slide against one another causing an earthquake
What are faults
Hot liquid material; the driving force that creates volcanoes
What is magma
Convergent boundaries do this and create what?
Come together and create mountains and volcanoes as well as earthquakes.
The process that breaks down rocks at or near the surface of the Earth.
What is weathering
What type of landform is created when the roof of a cave erodes?
What is a sinkhole
The place in the Earth that the earthquake begins.
What is the focus.
Divergent boundaries do what and form what?
What is pull away from each other and create rifts or shield volcanoes.
What type of erosion is the most changing of the Earth's surface?
What is water erosion.
What is crack called in the Earth's crust that molten lave flows out of?
What is a fissure?
The amount of energy released by an earthquake
What is magnitude
A wide, gently sloping cone formed from flowing lava
What is a shield volcano
When a rock changes its shape due to stress
What is deformation
The dropping or depositing of sediment by water, wind, or ice which can build "up" new land like a sand dune or a delta or sea shells on a beach
What is Deposition
The theory that all continents were once connected:
What is the continental drift theory.
The point on the Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point
What is the epicenter
Numerous volcanoes lying directly on tectonic plate boundaries in the Pacific Ocean form this
What is the Ring of Fire
The movement of sediments that produces fine grained porous sediment. Can only move small pieces.
What is wind erosion.