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Stemscopes Segment 3 Sculpting Landscapes 4th Grade
Stemscopes Segment 3 Sculpting Landscapes 4th Grade
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Stemscope Review of rock patterns, plate tectonics, and changing land
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Where do most earthquakes occur?
The boundaries between continents and oceans.
The steep slopes of the very oldest mountains.
The central regions of very large continents.
Groups of islands farthest from any continents.
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Mountains or hills made by hot rocks and gasses moving to the earth's surface from inside earth
Earthquakes
Deep-ocean trenches
Continent
Volcanoes
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The breakdown of solid materials into very small particles by water, air, and natural events
Erosion
Soil
Vegetation
Weathering
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A sudden release of energy under Earth's surface that makes the ground shake or crack is ....
Continent
Earthquake
Volcanoes
Mountain Range
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A force that causes objects with mass to attract each other.
Gravity
Weathering
Erosion
Sediments
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The gradual wearing down by wind, weather, are and natural events
Sediments
Erosion
Weathering
Gravity
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Mixture of sand, silt, clay, rock and humus (plant and animal remains)
Sediments
Gravity
Soil
Erosion
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A large continuous land mass is a
continent
mountain range
bands
earthquake
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Where are mountains likely to form?
At the tectonic plate movement
In the ocean
On the tectonic plate boundary
On a continent
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All plants found in a particular area
Vegetation
Gravity
Sediments
Soil
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The oldest rock layer can be found on the surface of the earth.
False
True
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Sand or small pieces of rock broken down by weathering and deposited on the land or in water
Sediments
Erosion
Soil
Vegetation
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Patterns of magnetic stripes along boundaries of tectonic plates are....
Earthquakes
Continents
Bands
Mountain Ranges
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The features of an area that you can see
Rock Formations
Landscape
Rock Layers
Evidence
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Major geological events that occur when plates shift suddenly and release stored energy
Landscape
Earthquake
Rock Layers
Fossils
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What is true about the Ring of Fire?
It is the only place on earth where earthquakes can happen
The edges of the tectonic plates are moving in this area
It has been getting larger since the earth formed
It shows the areas where tectonic plates are the thickest
