Earthquakes Volcanoes Magma Lava Tsunami
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What is a landform?
A physical feature on Earth's surface.
100
What is an earthquake?
The sudden movement of Earth's crust.
100
What are features on the ocean floor?
Trenches, rift valleys, and abyssal plains are all this.
100
What is acid rain?
This causes chemical weathering.
100
What is the ocean basin?
The largest landform beneath the ocean.
200
What is a geologist?
A scientist who studies the structure and history of Earth.
200
What is a fault?
A crack in Earth's crust.
200
What is asthenosphere?
The part of Earth made of rock that is close to its boiling point.
200
What is studies the Earth's structure and history?
A geologist does this.
200
What is the Ring of Fire?
This is around the Pacific Ocean Plate where many volcanoes erupt.
300
What is a volcano?
An opening in Earth's crust out of which magma flow.
300
What is magnitude?
The measure of the amount of energy released.
300
What is liquid metal?
The Earth's outer core is made of this.
300
What is continental drift?
Animal fossils, the shape of coastlines, and the age and type of mountains all explain that this happened.
300
What is where one plate pushes under another?
Volcanoes tend to erupt at these places.
400
What is lava?
A material that comes up through Earth's surface and hardens.
400
What is erosion?
The movement of pieces of weathered rock from one place to another.
400
What is a cinder-cone volcano?
This volcano has layers.
400
What is compression?
The force that occurs when plates are pushed together.
400
What is a caldera?
This forms when a volcano erupts.
500
What is a hot spot?
An unmoving pool of magma below the Earth's crust.
500
What is continental drift?
The reason why two landforms so far apart that have matching fossils and rock can be related.
500
What is a tsunami?
A giant wave caused by an earthquake under the ocean.
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What is shear?
The force that twists, tears, or pushes one part of the crust past another.
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What are the Aleutian Islands?
These are an example of an island arc.






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