Land and water
What is a landform?
A natural feature on Earth.
What is weathering?
When water, ice or wind breaks down rocks into small pieces.
What does extinct mean?
When a living thing no longer exists, dies off.
Name 2 types of landforms.
Valley, hills, mountains, islands, plains
What is erosion?
When wind, water, or other causes move rocks.
What is a fossil?
A print or part of an plant or animal that lived long ago.
What is a glacier?
Large body of moving ice.
Give two examples of erosion.
Rockslide, mudflow, rains and moves the soil, wind through a deserts
Give three examples of a fossil.
Fish from long ago, dinosaur, elephant birds, dragonfly, lizard, wooly mammoth
What covers the Earth?
Water covers over 2/3 of the Earth.
What is an earthquake? Is this a slow or fast land change?
Causes land to crack causing damage to buildings and roads. Fast.
What is sediment?
Mud and sand covers animal or plant remains which turn into rock after time and pressure.
When water runs downhill.
Explain the difference between lava and magma.
What is a scientist that studies history on Earth through fossils?
Paleontologist