Earth Science Part 1
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
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| Triggered by the movement of the earth’s plate | earthquake
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| Gravity or rain or both pulls rocks and mud down the mountain causing destruction | landslides
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| The wearing a way of sediments by water, waves, wind or ice | weathering
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| when thick magma and large amounts of gas build up under the surface | volcanoes
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| The moving or carrying a way of sediments to a new location | erosion
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| An earthquake in the ocean causes these giant destructive waves | tsunami
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| Earthquake, landslide, hurricane, tsunami and volcano | rapid changes to the Earth's surface
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| The dropping of sediments to a new location | deposition
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| Weathering, erosion and deposition | slow changes to the Earth's surface
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| Very small in size, tiny, a speck, crumb | particles
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| A huge V-shaped valley made from moving water | canyon
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| A huge moving body of ice that scrapes the landscape | glacier
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| A mound of sand deposited by wind | sand dune
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| large flat area of land at the mouth of a river | delta
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| An area of land, or a land shape found on the surface of the Earth | landform
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| Tiny particles of broken down rock, about the size of salt, very little water stays, loses water, no nutrients | sand
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| Finer and softer sand, like flour, silky smooth, slippery when wet, some water stays, some nutrients but erodes easily | silt
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| A sticky when wet, fine grained soil that does not allow water to flow through easily, hold to much water, needs nutrients, compacts when dried | clay
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| Dark and chunky soil full of organic matter and plants, sticks and leaves | humus
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| The best soil of all because it’s a mixture of humus, clay and sand | loam
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| Smaller stones, pebbles of rock, no water stays, no nutrients | gravel
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