Continents
How many continents are there?
What is 7?
This covers most of the earth's surface.
What is water?
Name the three layers of the earth.
What is crust, mantle, and core?
There is a storm along the coast. Waves from the ocean crash onto the beach. The sand is washed away.
Is it weathering or erosion?
What is erosion?
This is melted rock that flows out of a volcano.
What is lava?
This is the only continent that is an island.
What is Australia?
Large bodies of fresh water are called ________.
What are lakes?
This is a deep narrow passage with steep sides and a river flowing through it.
What is a canyon?
Water gets into the cracks of a rock. The water freezes and breaks the rock into small pieces.
Is it weathering or erosion?
What is weathering?
What is it called when a large part of the earth's surface shakes and moves?
What is an earthquake?
This is the largest continent.
What is Asia?
These are large bodies of salt water.
What are oceans?
This is the layer of the earth that is the thinnest and rockiest.
What is the crust?
This event in the earth's past changed the surface of the earth and it happened quickly.
What is the Flood?
This can change the earth's surface by blowing the top off a mountain.
What is a volcano?
What are the largest areas of land on the earth's surface called?
What are continents?
True or False?
Rivers are made up of salt water.
What false?
They are made up of fresh water.
The layer of earth at the center is called the ________?
What is the core?
Water quickly washes away a riverbank and a road during a flood.
Is it weathering or erosion?
What is erosion?
An opening in the earth's surface that allows lava to flow out.
What is a volcano?
Name the 7 continents.
What is North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica?
According to Genesis 1, where did the water on the earth come from?
What is God created it?
The layer of earth that is made of melted rock is called the _______.
What is the mantle?
Name the 4 causes of weathering.
What is ice, water, wind, and plants?
A seismograph is a tool used when this happens.
What is an earthquake?