Landforms: Geography Review

opening of the earth crust

• fault line

• earthquake

• epicenter

• volcano

breaking down rocks

• sheild

• weathering

• erosion

• rock weathering

a circular motion created when warmer material rises and draws cooler material.

• conduction

• transform boundaries

• convection flow

• plate tectonics

Release of energy through the earth is called a

• landform

• lava

• magma

• Earthquake

the base of an ancient mountain region that has been worn away.

• weathering

• erosion

• landform

• shield

the outer solid layer of the Earth.

• landform

• lithosphere

• plate tectonics

• transform boundary

measures and records the magnitude of the earthquake

• seismograph

• lava

• richter scale

• themometer

a soft weak layer under the lithosphere

• earth

• weathering

• asthenosphere

• magma

the nature features of the Earth

• landforms

• plains

• plateau

• erosion

the theory the Earth's surface is made up of rigid plates.

• lithosphere

• divergent boundary

• Plate tectonics

• volcano