1. 5 th Grade Earth Vocabulary Ms. Thornburg’s Flash Cards!

2. Your Name What do we call the theory of how Earth’s continents move over its surface? Continental drift

3. Your Name What do we call the process of breaking rock into soil, sand, and other tiny pieces? Weathering

4. Your Name What do we call a shaking of the ground caused by the sudden release of energy in Earth’s crust? Earthquake

5. Your Name What do we call the process of dropping, or depositing, sediment in a new location? Deposition

6. Your Name What do we call the process of moving sediment from one place to another? Erosion

7. Your Name What do we call a mountain formed by lava and ash? Volcano

8. Your Name What do we call molten rock from Earth’s mantle? Magma

9. Your Name What do we call a break or place where pieces of Earth’s crust move? Fault

10. Your Name What do we call a supercontinent containing all of Earth’s land that existed about 225 million years ago? Pangea

11. Your Name What do we call the center of the Earth? Core

12. Your Name What do we call a physical feature of Earth’s surface? Landform

13. Your Name What do we call a rigid block of crust and upper mantle rock? Plate

14. Your Name What do we call the downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity? Mass movement

15. Your Name What do we call the layer of rock beneath Earth’s crust? Mantle

16. Your Name What do we call the remains or traces of past life found in sedimentary rock? Fossils

17. Your Name What do we call the thin, outer layer of Earth? Crust