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What are the three things that make up the earth's structure?

a. Rock, water and grass

b. Core, mantle and the crust

c. Apple cores, mantle pieces and bread crusts.

What causes an earthquake?

a. An elephant's disco night.

b. Movement of the earth caused by heating and cooling of the rock.

c. Two of the earth's plates moving against each other.

What causes a fault in the Earth?

a.It's a place where two of the Earth's plates meet

b.It happens when a bolt of lightning hits the ground.

c.A Krillen destructo disc shot from another galaxy.

How are canyons are formed ?

a. Canyon bandicoots, an Australian marsupial, carve them out for their homes.

b. Over millions of years the canyon is carved out of the rock by a fast flowing river.

c. When a tornado comes though a valley, the wind rips the rock out causing a canyon.

How does a block mountain form?

a. Two of the Earth's plates move apart and the land in between drops, causing mountains and valleys.

b. Lots of kids stack blocks together forming a mountain.

c. Two plates move together squeezing the earth into ripples.

What is a zeugen?

a. A rock formation in the desert - it looks a bit like a mushroom.

b. A rock formation at the end of a glacier - it looks a bit like a toadstool.

c. A type of mushroom that looks a bit like a rock.

Where do glaciers form?

a. In places where it snows in winter.

b. Near where the Titanic sank.

c. In places that are always colder than zero degrees Celsius.

When do volcanoes erupt?

a. When a mountain gets really angry and blows its top.

b. When the rock in the mantle melts to form lava.

c. When the pressure of the magma forces it through the crust.

What shape is a young river valley?

a. Soft and pudgy, because it's still got its baby fat.

b. V- shaped, because the river is fast and wears away the rock steeply.

c. Flat and curved, because the river meanders in big S shapes.

What is a dune?

a. A mound of sand that has been shaped by the wind.

b. A type of fish that is found in the desert living in holes in the sand.

c. A rock in the desert that has been smoothed by the sand.

What are the formations that hang from the roof of caves?

What are people who explore caves called?

b. Snow White's dwarfs

When the countries were all joined together, what were they called?

a. Pangaea, which was made up of Gondwanaland and Laurasia.

b. Gwandalanaland, which was made up of South Africa and Asia

c. Fantasyland, which was made up of Legoland and Disneyland

How far do the tectonic plates move each year?

a. About 25 kilometres (about 15 1/2 miles)

b. About 30.5cm (12 inches)

c. About 4-5 cm ( 2 inches)

How is a stack formed?

a. A landslide causes rocks to fall from the top off the cliff into a stack in the ocean.

b. Tourist gradually stack rocks on top of one another causing a stack.

c. The ocean wears away an arch and the top falls in to make a stack.

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