Earth Science Vocabulary Quiz (1)

the thin rocky outer layer of earth that makes up the continents and the ocean floor

• mantle

• crust

• core

• plate tectonics

cracks in the Earth's crust that are the result of differential motion within the crust

• landforms

• river

• fault

• volcano

a hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind

• moraine

• mountain

• glaciers

• sand dune

idea that giant plates of rock are moving slowly across Earth's surface

• plate tectonics

• surface features

• landforms

• earthquakes

debris of all sorts originally transported by glaciers or ice sheets that have since melted away

• delta

• moraine

• sand dune

• lava

molten, or hot liquefied, rock located deep below the Earth's surface

• landforms

• crust

• volcano

• magma

any topography element that looks like a hill or pit (in a wide sense)

• surface features

• constructive process

• mountains

• deposition

the study of what is under the surface of the Earth by measuring vibrations on the Earth's surface (earthquakes)

• delta

• destructive processes

• seismology

• erosion

a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or over a wide area of land

• sediment

• glacier

• moraine

• volcano

a piece of land in the shape of a triangle or fan made by deposits of mud and sand at the mouth of a river

• weathering

• constructive process

• gravity

• delta