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Name a type of fossil.
Cast, mold, body, amber, carbon, trace, true form
What can cause a tsunami?
Tectonic plates moving, earthquakes, icebergs, volcanoes
What is the name of the area on earth where most tsunamis and earthquakes occur?
Ring of Fire
What force affects the occurrence of landslides?
Gravity
Mountaineers can suffer from __________________.
Frostbite, altitude sickness
What is an avalanche?
Mass of snow moving fast, over 300kms/h down a mountain side
What can cause flooding?
River bursting banks, heavy rains
How can we prevent floods?
Dams and river engineering
Which part of the earths inner anatomy is made up of magma? Outer core or mantle
Outer core
What are rocks made of? Minerals OR salts OR both
Both
What do we call rock that has settled into layers? Sedimentary rock OR igneous rock
Sedimentary rock
Metamorphic rock is rock that has been melted and cooled. True OR false
False
What is the theory of Pangaea?
One continent before it split up
What did they find that strongly suggested that South America and Africa were joined together once before?
Fossils of the same origin on both continents even though now apart.
What is the difference between erosion and deposition?
Erosion is the breaking down of the rock and deposition is the moving of the rock to be settled somewhere else
Give a type of weathering
Onion skin, freeze thaw, chemical, biological, physical
