Earth's Processes
When rocks are broken into tiny pieces of sediment
What is weathering?
Characteristics that can be observed or measured
What are physical properties?
This movement of Earth on its axis causes day and night.
What is rotation?
Sunlight, water, and temperature are examples of these types of (nonliving) factors.
What are abiotic factors?
The type of energy that allows us to see.
What is light?
The five steps to form these are: weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation
What are sedimentary rocks?
A ping pong ball floats in water because it is ______ dense than water.
What is less dense?
What is noon?
What is middle of the day?
Animals move from one place to another for food, warmth, or breeding.
What is migration?
This is when light bends or redirects.
What is refraction?
This landform is created when a river cuts deeply into rock over a long period of time.
What is a canyon?
This type of material that carries energy easily.
What is a conductor?
This Moon phase happens right after a full moon.
What is a waning gibbous?
Energy in ecosystems originally comes from this source.
What is the Sun?
Light will will always travel in a ___, if not redirected.
What is a straight line?
This process is when water vapor cools down and turns into water droplets that form a cloud
What is condensation?
Name one metal that is NOT attracted to magnets.
What is copper?
What is aluminum?
What is silver?
What is gold?
Tabby looks up into the night sky and only sees stars, no moon. The approximate amount of days until she sees a first quarter moon is ___
What is 1 week?
Mushrooms and bacteria break down once living organisms to feed off of them and then return nutrients back to the soil.
What are decomposers?
When light strikes an object, some of the colors are ___
What is absorbed?
These natural resources are formed when once living organisms in a swamp environment are quickly buried under layers and go under lots of pressure and heat.
What is coal?
What is 190g?
What is 30 days?
A population of hawks eat all of the snakes in the ecosystem. There are now too many mice that aren't being eaten by snakes. This is an example of ___
What is overpopulation?
This happens when light waves bounce off a smooth, shiny surface, allowing you to see your reflection in a mirror.
What is reflection?