Landform Vocabulary
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- What word is used to identify the ramains or traces of past life found in the Earth's crust?
- fossils
- What is a shaking of the ground caused by the sudden release of energy in Earth's crust?
- earthquake
- What is the name of an ancient "supercontinent" that a theory suggests contained all of Earth's land 225 million years ago?
- Pangea
- What is the process of breaking rock into soil, sand, or other tiny pieces?
- erosion
- What word means "a physical feature of the Earth's surface"?
- landform
- What is an opening in Earth's crust through which lava flows?
- volcano
- What is the process of dropping, or depositing, sediment in a new location?
- deposition
- What is the name for the theory of how Earth's continents move over its surface?
- continental drift
- What is Earth's hottest layer; the center layer of Earth?
- core
- What is the layer of rock beneath Earth's crust?
- mantle
- What is hot, soft rock from Earth's lower mantle?
- magma
- What is the downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity?
- mass movement