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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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What is true about the Ring of Fire?
It has been getting larger since the earth formed
It is the only place on earth where earthquakes can happen
It shows the areas where tectonic plates are the thickest
The edges of the tectonic plates are moving in this area
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Major geological events that occur when plates shift suddenly and release stored energy
Earthquake
Fossils
Landscape
Rock Layers
3
The features of an area that you can see
Rock Layers
Landscape
Evidence
Rock Formations
4
Patterns of magnetic stripes along boundaries of tectonic plates are....
Mountain Ranges
Continents
Bands
Earthquakes
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Where are mountains likely to form?
On a continent
On the tectonic plate boundary
In the ocean
At the tectonic plate movement
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A force that causes objects with mass to attract each other.
Erosion
Gravity
Sediments
Weathering
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Mixture of sand, silt, clay, rock and humus (plant and animal remains)
Sediments
Erosion
Soil
Gravity
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The oldest rock layer can be found on the surface of the earth.
False
True
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A sudden release of energy under Earth's surface that makes the ground shake or crack is ....
Volcanoes
Earthquake
Continent
Mountain Range
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A large continuous land mass is a
earthquake
mountain range
bands
continent
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The breakdown of solid materials into very small particles by water, air, and natural events
Erosion
Weathering
Vegetation
Soil
12
Sand or small pieces of rock broken down by weathering and deposited on the land or in water
Erosion
Soil
Vegetation
Sediments
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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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All plants found in a particular area
Vegetation
Sediments
Gravity
Soil
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The gradual wearing down by wind, weather, are and natural events
Weathering
Gravity
Erosion
Sediments
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Mountains or hills made by hot rocks and gasses moving to the earth's surface from inside earth
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Deep-ocean trenches
Continent
