Earth's Systems Vocabulary Review

What is a topographic feature formed by processes that shape Earth's surface?

• landform

• mountain

• plain

• plateau

What is a landform with high relief and high elevation?

• landform

• mountain

• plain

• plateau

What is a landform with low relief and low elevation?

• landform

• mountain

• plain

• plateau

What is an area with low relief and high elevation?

• landform

• mountain

• plain

• plateau

What is the hypothesis suggesting that continents are in constant motion on the surface of the Earth?

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• global warming

• Pangaea

What is the one supercontinent that all the continents were once part of?

• continental drift

• Pangaea

• tectonic plate theory

• global warming

What is the plastic (flowing) layer withing Earth's mantle?

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• magneosphere

• biosphere

What is the dense metallic center of Earth?

• crust

• core

• mantle

• lithosphere

What is the brittle, rocky outer layer of Earth?

• core

• crust

• mantle

• magnetosphere

What is the rigid layer of Earth made up of the crust and the uppermost mantel?

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• magnetoshere

• biosphere