5th Grade Physical Geography: 5th Grade Physical Geography, List 4

This list covers vocabulary related to ecosystems, soil types, volcanoes, and more.

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  1. ecosystem
    organisms interacting with their physical environment
  2. rainforest
    a densely wooded tropical area with heavy precipitation
  3. fauna
    all the animal life in a particular region or period
  4. flora
    all the plant life in a particular region or period
  5. bedrock
    solid unweathered stone beneath surface deposits of soil
  6. silt
    mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
  7. sediment
    matter that has been deposited by some natural process
  8. soil
    material in the top layer of the surface of the earth
  9. mineral
    a solid inorganic substance occurring in nature
  10. clay
    water-soaked soil; soft, wet earth
  11. volcano
    a fissure in the earth's crust through which gases erupt
  12. earthquake
    vibration from underground movement along a fault plane
  13. magnitude
    the property of relative size or extent
  14. crust
    the outer layer of the Earth
  15. core
    the central part of the Earth
  16. mantle
    the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
  17. lava
    rock that in its molten form issues from volcanos
  18. crater
    a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano
  19. magma
    molten rock in the earth's crust
  20. plate tectonics
    the movement or study of the movement of Earth's crust
Created on Mon Nov 27 13:25:57 EST 2023 (updated Thu Nov 30 15:17:58 EST 2023)

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