Earth’s Features Weathering Erosion Building Up Earth’s Surface Get The Picture 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

These high landforms with fairly flat surfaces can be found at the tops of canyons and can extend for miles on either side

What are plateaus?

They connect points on a map that have the same elevations

What are contour lines?

The Earth’s rocky outer layer

What is the Crust?

A map that shows the shape of surface features and their elevations (heights) above sea level

What is a topographic map?

If you were on land, where would you be able to walk to find salt water; be specific

What are coastlines or beaches?

The two types of weathering

What are chemical and mechanical?

The breaking of larger rocks into smaller pieces of rock are called

What are sediments?

Three causes of mechanical weathering

What is wind, plant roots, freezing water, moving water, animals that burrow, expanding and contracting due to temp.?

Tell me how a cave is formed

What is acidic water dissolving minerals in rocks and creates pockets known as caves?

This is the main factor that causes chemical weathering

What is chemical weathering?

Erosion is an example of what kind of force

What is a destructive force?

The carrying away of sediments by moving water, wind, or moving ice

What is the erosion?

Frozen water that wears down and shapes the Earth’s surface

What are glaciers?

Ocean waves do this during erosion

What is break down rocks on coastlines and sediments are dragged back and forth?

This happens when soil gives out on a steep slope due to gravity and water; i.e. California

What are landslides?

The dropping of, or releasing, of sediments that have moved from one place to another

What is deposition?

Put these in correct order from start to finish The river meanders across the flat plains Forms a delta Picks up sediments Water flows swiftly downhill

1. River flows swiftly downhill 2. Picks up sediments 3 1. River flows swiftly downhill 2. Picks up sediments 3. River meanders over flat plains 4. Forms a delta

Melted rock that is under the Earth’s surface

What is magma?

Deposition has this kind of force, meaning building up

What is a constructive force?

Melted rock from a volcano that is on the Earth’s surface

What is hot lava?

What is mechanical weathering?

What is a topographic map?

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What is 1. Plateaus, 2. Mountains?

What is a meandering river?

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What is 1. Lava, 2. Magma?