Waves
Land Changes
Land Forms
Vocabulary
Extras
100

this is what travels through water in regular patterns of motion to create waves

What is energy?

100

rocks break apart, wear away, or dissolve into smaller particles

What is weathering?

100

formed in windy places where sand is plentiful

What are sand dunes?

100

the force that pulls objects toward Earth's center

What is gravity?

100

this is how a cell phone knows exactly where you are

What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?

200

the highest point of the wave

What is a crest?

200

the smaller particles left behind when rocks break apart

What is sediment?

200

a huge area of slow-moving ice

What is a glacier?

200

two organisms that change the shape of the land

What are plants and animals?

200

living things

What are organisms?

300

the lowest point of a wave

What is a trough?

300

sediment gets moved from one place to another

What is erosion?

300

landforms formed as a result of erosion by the movement of water in rivers 

What are canyons?

300

rapid movement of rock, soil, and other material down a hill or mountain

What is a landslide?

300

a cell phone sends information in this form

What is digitized?

400

the distance between the highest point and the middle point

What is amplitude?

400

when sediment is dropped in a new place

What is deposition?

400

In Yosemite Valley, this created U-shaped valleys, hanging valleys, and steep cliffs

What is ice?

400

trace of plant or animal that lived million of years ago

What is a fossil?

400

A wave with a _____ amplitude transfers the most energy.

What is high?

500

the distance from crest to crest or trough to trough

What is wavelength?

500

this has caused a sidewalk in front of a house to start lifting and changes its shape

What are tree roots?

500

a boulder as big as a car was likely deposited by this

What is a glacier?

500

Satellites in space _____ radio signals to a receiver on Earth

What is transmit?

500

code that can be transmitted using dots and dashes or with light using faster or slower flashes

What is Morse code?