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  • What is the name for the strongest point of an earthquake?
    The epicenter
  • When an earthquake happens, the ground ______________, or vibrates
    shakes
  • How is the earth like an egg?
    Because it has three different layers
  • What is the difference between magma and lava
    magma is below the ground, lava is on the land.
  • Give three examples of natural disasters
    Well done
  • What can cause a flood?
    Heavy rains and melting snow can quickly fill a river, when water flows over banks, or sides, there is a flood.
  • water that is not salty
    freshwater
  • melted rock that is below the earth's surface
    magma
  • The ___________ core is solid rock.
    inner
  • What is a drought?
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  • melted rock that flows onto land
    lava
  • The ___________ core is melted rock.
    outer
  • seven great areas of land
    continents
  • the layer below the crust
    mantle
  • land features
    landforms
  • The continental shelf is like a huge ________________
    plateau
  • a mountain that builds up around an opening in Earth's crust
    volcano
  • Mountains, valleys, and plateaus are examples of ______________
    landforms
  • What is the difference between an active and an inactive volcano?
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  • a canyon on the ocean floor
    trench
  • Where do most earthquakes happen?
    Well done
  • What is a landslide
    Well done
  • the rapid movement of rocks and soil down a hill
    landslide
  • Floods can _______ land away
    wash
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