Earth's movement and creation of landforms - class-VIII
Description: earth's movement and creation of landforms | |
Number of Questions: 24 | |
Created by: Mira Shah | |
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What is most prone to earthquakes?
The line drawn on the map through the places having the same intensity of an earthquake is called _______________.
Vibrations or shakings occuring in the crust of the earth are called _________________.
Sudden shaking of a part of the earth is called ______.
Earth takes 24 hours to ____________.
Depositional work of glaciers along the sides of it is known as ______________.
Origin of typical land form of glacier i.e. Drumlins is _____________.
Large deposited material at the mouth of glacier is known as _________.
Point out the term which describes the action of glacier and its effects on the previous landscape?
What causes days and nights?
What is "Barkan"?
Earth takes 365 days to ___________.
Anything that rotates and moves around a central line is called an _________.
The axis of rotation of the earth is __________.
Tilted axis and vertical axis are present respectively in ____________.
Wind erosion has the greatest impact on areas with __________.
Erosion is the process of ____________________.
Vibrations of the earth surface caused by earth movements are known as _________.
A mass of rocks and sediment carried down and deposited by a glacier, typically as ridges at its edges or extremity is called ____________.
About what percent of the world's total supply of freshwater is frozen in glaciers?
The huge mass of ice and snow moving slowly is called __________.
What is the name for an amphitheater-like hollow that forms at the head of a glacier?
Which of the following agents of erosion deposits the most poorly sorted sediment?
Due to the denudation work of __________ moraines are formed.