Changes to the Earth's Surface (Unit C Ch 8)

What is a mountain that forms as lava flows through a crack onto Earth's surface called?

• landform

• volcano

• earthquake

• glacier

What is the process called when water slows down, carrying soil and rock and drops sediment as it flows?

• deposition

• fossil

• landform

• topography

Any natural feature on the Earth's surface is called a what?

• mountain

• volcano

• glacier

• landform

What are traces or remains of an organism that lived long ago called?

• fossil

• landform

• glacier

• none of these

The shape of landforms in a particular area are called what?

• fossil

• glacier

• topography

• mountain

The shaking of Earth's surface caused by movement of rock in the crust is called what?

• mountain

• topography

• glacier

• earthquake

The area that is higher than the land around it is a what?

• fossil

• glacier

• mountain

• none of these

What is a huge, moving mass of ice called?

• glacier

• fossil

• rockbed

• none of these

What kind of landform is is formed by deposition?

• mountain

• valley

• delta

• plateau

What is the name of the very center of the earth called?

• inner core

• mantle

• crust

• outer core