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a circular depression in the ground caused by a meteoroids is called a crater
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What is a summit crater?
A summit crater is a circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity.
A circular depression that forms when a magma chamber empties and causes the ground to sink?
A circular depression that forms when a magma chamber empties is called a caldera. It is a large volcanic crater made from the collapse of a volcano's mouth.
What are meteoroids called when they reach the ground?
Meteorites
A depression in the ground due to cave collapse or acidic water dissolution of limestone is called a?
A sinkhole is the term used to describe a depression in the ground caused by a cave collapse. It can also be the result of acidic water dissolving limestone.
Are mars' moons craters?
No. A crater is a circular depression in the ground made by an impact or explosion. The moons of Mars are captured asteroids.
What Forms when a meteoroid enters earths atmosphere?
Meteoroids don't enter the earths atmosphere, Meteors do. Meteoroids are the rocks that you find on the ground after a meteor penetrated the atmosphere and made it to the ground.
Are craters volcanic bombs?
No. A crater is a circular depression in the ground formed by an impact or explosion. A volcano bomb is a blob of lava hurled out during a volcanic eruption.
Under ground erosion causes a circular depression?
OMG! YOU DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS?!?!?!?!?!?! ITS SINKHOLE DUMMY! THINK x taps head x ANYBODY UP THERE? GEEZ!
When meteoroids enter the earth what do they do?
a meteor burns up on entry into the atmosphere, and a meteorite strikes the ground
How are meteoroids meteors and meteorites different from one another?
Location. In order, they are in space, in air, or on the ground.
A hole in the groud caused by a meteor hitting a planet?
A solid object hitting the ground with the force of a meteor would leave a crater, a depression in the ground with a raised edge at the surface, similar to Meteor Crater in Arizona.
Formed when the level of land drops below the level of the water table?
A depression in the ground caused by the removal of groundwater, resulting in sinking land surface levels.
