Weathering, Erosion
The process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces
What is Weathering
Lime stone is what type of rock:
A: igneous rock
B: sedimentary rock
C: metamorphic rock
What is B: sedimentary rock
Soil is slowly deposited at the mouth of a river to form a____________.
What isa a Delta
What is a sudden collapse of land?
What is a landslide
What creates a U-shaped valley?
What are glaciers
The movement of sediment and soil by wind, water, and gravity.
What is erosion
What is the correct order of processes needed for sedimentary rock formation?
Weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation
What can be formed when wind deposits sediments?
What is a sand dune
A nonrenewable fossil fuel that was formed from ancient marine organisms that were buried by sediment for millions of years
Oil
What creates a V-shaped valley?
What is a river
The word compaction means to move, break, squeeze or glue together?
What is squeeze together
Rocks formed by heat and pressure: Starts with an M
What are Metamorphic Rocks
"V" shapes valleys formed by a river: True or False
What is true
A natural resource that can replenish within a relatively short time
Renewable resource
What is organic matter found in ancient swamps?
What is Coal
What are 3 or 4 natural forces that can cause weathering and/or erosion?
What is wind, water, ice and gravity
Rocks formed from melted rock that comes from deep within the Earth: Starts with an I
What are Igneous Rocks
What landforms are formed by deposition by wind?
What is sand dunes and pleateus
A natural resource that cannot replenish at the rate it is used
Non-renewable resource
What had to be applied in order to make buried organic matter into fossil fuels?
What is heat and pressure
Decayed plants and animal remain under pressure and heat for millions of years. What is formed?
Coal and oil
Name three landforms that are made by water, wind and ice
What is u-shaped valley, v-shaped valley and sand dunes
How is petroleum made?
Which fossil fuels can form from an ocean environment?
Petroleum and Natural gas
Before coal has formed over millions of years, it is a wet, sampling of decaying plant material called...
What is peat