Question | Answer |
Natural land shape/feature | landform |
All kinds of landforms in a certain place | topography |
Large/thick sheet of ice | glacier |
hill of sand, formed by wind | sand dune |
Water Eriosen can _______ _______. | form canyons |
You hike on a moraine. How can you tell? | you see bits of rock, sand, & clay |
area of new land at the mouth of a river | delta |
large hole from collapsed cave roof | sink hole |
What is not a cause of weathering? | river carrying sediment & sand downstream |
plants... | break down rocks into smaller pieces/ preserves landforms by preventing eriosin |
ice... | creates moraines/ forms glacier grooves |
wind... | carries sediment/ weathers landforms |
break in Earth's crust | fault |
mountain made of lava, ash, etc. | volcano |
shaking of ground caused by sudden release of energy in crust. | earthquake |
molten rock beneath earth's surface | magma |
plates float on earth's second layer called the _______. | mantle |
chain volcanos are formed when | a plate moves over a hot spot |
two sponges rubbing againts each other models | plates rubbing together |
a shaken can of soda models | how a volcano has preasure build up |