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landforms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Landform | Physical features on earth Surface |
| Weathering | the process of breaking rock into soil, sand, and other tiny pieces or particles call sediment |
| Erosion | The process of moving sediment from one place to another |
| Deposition | The process of dropping or depositing, sediment into a new location |
| Mass movement | The downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity |
| Crust | Earth outer layer |
| Mantle | A layer of rock beneath earth crust |
| Core | Center layer of the earth |
| plate | Rigid blocks of crust and upper mantel rock |
| Magma | hot soft rock from earth mantle |
| Volcano | A mountain formed by lava and ash |
| Earthquake | Shaking of the ground caused by the sudden release of energy in earth's crust |
| Fault | Place where the crust breaks, movement occurs were they meet |
| Continental Drift | The theory of how earth continents move over its surface |
| Pangaea | 225 million years ago, all of the earth's land was joined together forming a supercontinent |
| Fossil | The remains or traces of past life found in sedimentary rock |
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