Match the description with the correct and corresponding vocabulary term. Question 64 options:

Erosion

Plate tectonics

Earthquake

Subduction

Weathering

Volcano

Continental drift

1.

This is the movement of soil, mud and rock due to the downward movement of wind, water or ice.

2.

This is a landform that is formed by the eruption of magma through a vent from the interior of the Earth.

3.

This is a geologic even that occurs when tectonic plates are displaced violently.

4.

This is the geologic theory where the cooler surface of the Earth move slowly over the hotter layer underneath.

5.

This is the movement of Earth's continents, relative to each other, due to plate tectonics. Wegener stated that Earth's continents were once joined in a supercontinent, Pangaea, and broke apart about 200 million years ago and slowly moved to the present locations.

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6.

This is the breaking down of rocks, soils, and minerals through direct contact with the Earth's atmosphere.

7.

This is an area where two tectonic plates move towards one another, with one plate sliding underneath the other plate.