Chapter 5 Review Flashcards
The slow proses that breakers away rocks into smaller pieces is called
Weathering
A rock is Brocken apart by ——- ———- if the rock type does not change
Physical weathering
If a rock type contains iron, air and water can react with the iron through ——– ———
Chemical weathering
The weathering removal of rock from one place to another is called
Erosion
Erosion can be caused by glaciers, wind, moving water, and ——-
Gravity
Deposits left behind by a glacier are called —— —- and ——- ——
Glacial till
Glacial debris
The mounds that form where till builds up are called
Moraines
A large land mass surrounded by oceans or other land is called a
Continent
A physical feature of the land is called a
Landform
Mounds, called —- —–, form where wind blows sand
Sand dunes
The gently sloping edge of a continent that connects the shore to the sea is a ———– —–
Continental shelf
Underwater mountains that run through an ocean form a(n)
Ocean ridge
Features that look like canyons in the ocean floor are called
Trenches
The name of a region of land where water drained into a river is a
Drainage basin
The movement of a river slows down as it nears the ocean, dropping deposits that form triangle-shaped landforms, called
Delta
The outmost layer of the earth is made up of —-, called the
Rock
Crust
Below the crust lies a layer of rock, called the
Mantle
Rock in the mantle can move or slowly flow because of great pressure and high
Temperatures
The outer core is below the mantle and is made mostly of melted —-
Iron
The sphere of solid material at earths center is called the
Inner core
The large section that makes up earths crust and upper mantel are called
Plates
When the plates slowly ram into each other, they can form bended rock layers called
Folds
A long narrow crack in earths crust is called a
Fault
Tall landforms caused by folding or faulting are called
Mountains
If a rock in the earths crust suddenly shakes an earthquake occurs
Earthquake
Underwater earth quakes can cause huge waves called
Tsunami
The source of an earthquake creates —— —– that travel outward
Seismic waves
A tool that graphs seismic waves as wavy lines is called a
Seismograph
A volcano produces melted rock called —–, which erupts into the air as —-
Magma
Lava
