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Planet Earth Movement of the Crust What are Landforms? How are Landforms Shaped?
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CORE Has two layers: Inner Core: solid Outer Core: liquid CRUST Surface layer- solid What we see MANTLE The middle layer Filled with Magma or melted rock, which is a hot, dense, slow moving liquid
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CONTINENTAL DRIFT The theory that the earth’s continental plates are moving. PLATE TECTONICS The theory that the earths plates interact to produce mountains, trenches, earthquakes and volcanoes. Pangea: When all of the Earth’s continents were once joined together.
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Topography: The physical features of the land. Landscape: The shape of the land together with its cover of vegetation, water, ice, and rock; it also includes the activities of humans and other animals.
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Topography terms: ▪ ELEVATION ▪ Used to describe the height of a landform. It is measured from the sea level. ▪ RELIEF ▪ The difference in elevation between two points on the earth’s surface ▪ GRADIANT ▪ Refers to the steepness of slopes ▪ GEOLOGY ▪ Refers to the types of rocks and the history of those rocks.
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Topography terms: ▪ ELEVATION ▪ Used to describe the height of a landform. It is measured from the sea level. ▪ RELIEF ▪ The difference in elevation between two points on the earth’s surface ▪ GRADIANT ▪ Refers to the steepness of slopes ▪ GEOLOGY ▪ Refers to the types of rocks and the history of those rocks.
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Mountain building: (magma and movements of the earths crust) ▪ Volcanic Mountains, Dome Mountains, Fold Mountains, Fault Block Mountains Weathering: is the gradual breaking down of solid rock by exposure to air, water, animals and plants. Erosion: the process by which the land surface is sculpted and the weathered particles are carried away, or transported, by running water, tides, wind and glaciers. Deposition: is the depositing of the weathered particles as sediment by the agents of erosion. VIDEO VIDEO
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