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What is an extremely hot fluid or semi-fluid material under Earth’s crust.
Landform
Magma
Lava
Plateau
What is a molten rock flowing from a volcano.
Lava
Erosion
Magma
Asthenosphere
What is a release of energy through Earth’s crust due to changes taken place beneath it.
Earthquake
Seismograph
Magma
Erosion
What is the natural features that make up earth's surface.
Plate tectonics
Transform boundary
Plain
Landforms
What is a place where side-by-side plates grind past each other.
epicentre
Transform boundary
Plate tectonics
Plain
What is the wearing away of Earth’s surface by wind, water, or glacial action.
Earthquake
Shield
Divergent boundary
Erosion
What is a circular motion created when warmer material rises and draws down cooler material, which replaces it.
Shield
Convection flow
Erosion
Plateau
what is the theory that Earth’s surface is made up of rigid plates that are pushed by forces inside the planet.
Volcano
Seismograph
Plate tectonics
Transform boundary
What is an opening in Earth’s crust from which molten rock or magma escapes to reach the surface.
Erosion
Divergent boundary
Volcano
Weathering
What is the outer, solid layer of Earth made up of moving plates.
landforms
Lithosphere
Plateau
Epicentre
what is a soft weak layer under the lithosphere upon which the tectonic plates move.
Plate tectonics
Asthenosphere
Convection flow
Volcano
what is the point on Earth’s surface directly above the location of an earthquake.
Lithosphere
Plain
Epicentre
Weathering
what is a place where two plates of the lithosphere move away from each other.
Convergent boundary
Divergent boundary
Transform boundary
Erosion
What is a place where two plates of the lithosphere come together.
Convergent boundary
Asthenosphere
Seismograph
Plateau
what is the base rock of an ancient mountain region that has been worn away leaving a flat, rocky region.
Transform boundary
Epicentre
Shield
Asthenosphere
What is a large, flat to gently rolling region.
Convection flow
Convergent boundary
Lithosphere
Plain
What is a high, flat region that has been lifted by movement of Earth’s surface.
Plateau
Landform
Convergent boundary
Lava
what is the breaking down of rocks by physical or chemical processes.
Convection flow
Epicentre
Volcano
Weathering
what is a tool that measures and records the magnitude and duration of a disturbance of the ground, especially earthquakes.
Weathering
Convection flow
Magma
Seismograph
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