Chapter two information in Landforms

Question 1

What is Subduction?

Answer 1

The process in which one plate slides underneath another.

Question 2

What is Weathering?

Answer 2

the breaking down of rocks

Question 3

What is erosion?

Answer 3

the moving of broken up pieces of rock

Question 4

What is deposition?

Answer 4

the building up of eroded materials in a new location

Question 5

What is glaciation?

Answer 5

the process of ice advancing and covering large areas of land

Question 6

What is plate tectonics?

Answer 6

the theory that Earths outer shell is made up of individual plates that move
causing earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains, and formation and destruction of areas of the crust