Chapter 5 - Lesson 1

Question 1

What is an ocean?

Answer 1

A large body of salt water

Question 2

What is a continent?

Answer 2

a large area of land

Question 3

Whats is a landform?

Answer 3

a land feature on the Earth

Question 4

What is an earthquake?

Answer 4

a quick movement of Earth’s crust

Question 5

What is a volcano?

Answer 5

a mountain that builds up around a crack in Earth’s crust

Question 6

What is weathering?

Answer 6

the breaking down of large rocks into smaller pieces and sand

Question 7

What is erosion?

Answer 7

the weathering and movement of small pieces of rock

Question 8

Name other bodies of water.

Answer 8

rivers, streams, ponds and lakes

Question 9

Fresh water is not

Answer 9

salty

Question 10

Earth has 7 large areas of land called

Answer 10

continents

Question 11

What shows what a map’s colors and shapes mean?

Answer 11

a Key

Question 12

What is the tallest landform?

Answer 12

a mountain

Question 13

What is the low land between hills or mountains?

Answer 13

a valley

Question 14

What do you call a deep valley where a river may run through it?

Answer 14

a canyon

Question 15

What is a land that is wide and flat?

Answer 15

a plain

Question 16

What is a body of water called that has land all around it?

Answer 16

a lake

Question 17

What is a large body of moving water called?

Answer 17

a river

Question 18

What is land with steep sides called that has a flat top?

Answer 18

a plateau

Question 19

What is land called that borders the ocean?

Answer 19

a coast

Question 20

What is land called that has water on three sides?

Answer 20

a peninsula

Question 21

What is land called with water all around it?

Answer 21

an island

Question 22

The land below the ocean is called

Answer 22

the ocean floor

Question 23

The continental shelf is found

Answer 23

on the coast where dry land meets water. It slopes down from the coast.

Question 24

What is wide and flat and found under the ocean?

Answer 24

abyssal plain

Question 25

What is a canyon called on the ocean floor? (Also the deepest part of the ocean floor)

Answer 25

a trench

Question 26

The deepest trench in the Pacific Ocean is called

Answer 26

the Mariana Trench and is 7 miles deep

Question 27

The Earth’s outer layer is called

Answer 27

the crust

Question 28

The crust is made of

Answer 28

rock

Question 29

The outer layer is made of

Answer 29

continents and ocean floor

Question 30

The layer below the crust is called

Answer 30

the mantle

Question 31

The deepest layer is called

Answer 31

the core

Question 32

The outer core is

Answer 32

melted metal

Question 33

The inner core is

Answer 33

solid metal

Question 34

The mantle is made up of

Answer 34

hard rock and soft rock and flows like putty