Weathering & Erosion
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Fossils
Extra
100
The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is Weathering?
100
A shaking of Earth's surface.
What is an Earthquake?
100
A mountain that forms where lava flows on Earth's surface.
What is Volcano?
100
The trace remains of an organism that lived long ago.
What are Fossils?
100
A large moving block of ice.
What is a glacier?
200
The process of moving sediment.
What is Erosion?
200
Most earthquakes occur here.
What is along fault lines?
200
The pressure on the Earth's inner core causes this.
What is the Earth's inner core remain a solid?
200
Information about Earth's history that is contained in fossils.
What is the Fossil Record?
200
This occurs when ocean plates push together and one plate goes under the other.
What is volcanoes form?
300
The dropping by rivers of soil and rock.
What is deposition?
300
Describe the 3 different types of earthquakes.
Plates moving into each other. Plates moving away from each other. Plates moving against each other.
300
This layer of the Earth includes the land that makes up the continents and the land under the oceans.
What is the crust?
300
The tree's wood is replaced by rock
How a tree becomes petrified?
300
Explain why palm tree fossils can be in Wyoming.
The climate must have been warmer there long ago.
400
This is formed by wind erosion.
What sand dunes?
400
This would happen if the Earth's plates stopped moving.
What is the continents would stay in the same places. There would be no new mountain ranges and volcanic eruptions.
400
Melted rock is found in this layer of the Earth.
What is upper parts of the Earth's mantle?
400
You might be able to tell how big an animal was by this.
What is imprint fossils or animal tracks?
400
Describe a shield and cinder cone volcano?
Shield volcanoes have gently sloping sides. Cinder Cone volcanoes have steep sides.
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