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Physical Features and Processes
What is a plateau?
What is a huge piece of Earth's crust called?
Physical Features and Processes
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What is a huge piece of Earth's crust called?
A trench
A plate
A mid-ocean ridge
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What is a plateau?
A flat area that rises above surrounding land
A bumpy area that rises above surrounding land
A flat area that is at the bottom of a valley
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What else does weathering help create too?
Global Warming
Soil
Storms
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When the plates move, they take the __________ with them. How far do they move per year?
Continents 2 inches per year
Oceans 3 inches per year
Continents 4.5 inches per year
Oceans 2 inches per year
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What is a landform that is lower and less steep called?
A hill
A plateau
A small mountain
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What is the idea that Earth's outer skin is broken into huge plates is the theory called?
Pangaea
Plates
Plate Tectonics
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What is a fairly soft rock beneath the plates ?
Magama
Pumice
Lava
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How much of Earth's water is from in oceans? (in %)
97%
95%
82%
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How much heat does the atmosphere hold?
Too little
Too much
Enough to survive
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True or False-All places have too much water
True
False-Some places have too much water and some have too much
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What is a plain?
An area with gently rolling land
A flat area
Bumby land around mountains
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True or False-The plates float on magma
True
False
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What are the three types of weathering?
Wind, Rain, Hail
Snow, Sand, Water
Snow, Ice, Sand
Wind, Rain, Ice
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What is a shape or type of land ?
Nature
Landform
Plate
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What carries small pieces of rock to new places?
Mountains
Erosion
Plate Tectonics
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What is a landform that rises more than 2,00 feet above sea level called?
A valley
A mountain
A hill
