Weathering & Erosion
When tiny bits of rock are moved from one location to another by water, wind, ice, or gravity.
What is erosion?
A high area of land with very steep sides.
What is a mountain?
A dark rock made of fossil plants that can be burned and used for fuel.
What is coal?
A material made of fossils that is burned for energy, such as coal.
What is fossil fuel?
A person who uses science to come up with solutions to problems.
What is an engineer?
A test used to discover new information about a question.
What is an experiment?
A process where a root growing causes rock to break apart.
What is root wedging?
The process of sediment falling and settling on a surface.
What is deposition?
Very small pieces of rock.
What is sediment?
An event in nature (such as a landslide, earthquake, hurricane, or wildfire) that can be dangerous to living things.
What is a natural hazard?
When a liquid turns to solid, like when liquid water freezes to solid ice.
What is freeze?
The process of breaking rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
All the living and nonliving things in a particular place.
What is an environment?
A type of rock formed when sediments settle and then press together over long periods of time.
What is a sedimentary rock?
When lots of rocks and soil roll down from a cliff or mountain.
What is a landslide?
A process where water freezing and expanding causes rock to break apart.
What is ice wedging?
Underwater
What is aquatic?
Information that can be used to support or reject an idea.
What is evidence?
A habitat covered in water and filled with many trees.
What is a swamp?
How much higher one side is than the other.
What is a slope?
A pretend version of something that scientists use when the real thing is too big, small, or complicated to work with.
What is a model?
A deep hole in the ground formed over a long time by moving water.
What is a canyon?
The remains of a plant or animal that lived a very, very long time ago.
What is a fossil?
To come up with many new questions or ideas about something.
What is to brainstorm?
Something that is very high up on one end and very low at the other end.
What is steep?