Soil and Weathering
Rapid Changes
Landforms
Natural Resources
Lab Safety and Tools
100
This is when rocks become worn or break apart.
What is weathering?
100
This rapid change can cause the ground to crack and buildings to fall.
What is an Earthquake?
100
This landform is the tallest part of land. It can have grass, rocks, plants, and animals and sometimes snow at its tallest part.
What is a mountain?
100
Something that people use that is found in nature is a...
What is a natural resource?
100
You could use this tool to separate a soil mixture.
Answers may vary. What is strainer, sifter, filter, toothpick, brush
200
Soil contains pieces of rock, decomposing plants and animals, wood chips, and water that could be easily separated so is therefore considered a _________.
What is a mixture?
200
All rapid changes have something in common. What is one common characteristic of volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, and tornadoes?
They all can cause damage to the land, buildings, houses, roads, and other things in their path. They change the land very quickly unlike weathering which changes the land over time.
200
This landform is most commonly found in the central part of the US. It is flat, grassy land and often has good soil for growing crops.
What is a plain?
200
This natural resource gives us products such as furniture, baseball bats, paper, food, and medicine.
What is a tree?
200
This tool is used in an investigation to measure the temperature of a substance.
What is a thermometer?
300
This is the vocabulary word for the decaying plants and animals found in soil.
What is humus?
300
This is a rapid change in which molten rock and ash fly out of a mountain and can cause trees and buildings to burn. It can cause the formation of islands.
What is a volcano?
300
This is a low part of the land often found between mountain ranges. Temperatures are usually mild and often have rivers flowing through them.
What is a valley?
300
This natural resource can be made in nature again and again.
What is a renewable resource?
300
This tool is used to measure the mass of an object by using grams that have an equal mass to the object.
What is a balance scale?
400
Give at least three ways that rocks can break down by the process of weathering.
What is water, wind, ice?
400
Heavy rains can cause soil and rock to loosen and begin to slide down hillsides. This rapid change is called a _________.
What is a landslide?
400
This is the type of landform where we live in Frisco/McKinney.
What is a plain?
400
This is when we protect our resources and are careful not to use them up.
What is conservation?
400
If a scientist wanted to observe the different parts of a soil mixture, this tool cold be used to get a closer look.
Answers may vary. What is a brock scope, microscope, or hand lens?
500
Our gobstopper and sugar cube investigations were for you to be able to understand the process of weathering of rocks. Some investigations have limitations compared to the real life process. What limitations are there on this kind of investigation?
The real process happens much slower. The properties of the rock are different than that of the candy or sugar. Size could be a limitation. In real like pieces of broken rock can be carried and deposited in other places.
500
This rapid change can cause landslides to occur, volcanoes to erupt, and tsunamis to form.
What is an earthquake?
500
Name two ways mountain and hills are alike and two ways they are different.
Mountains are tall and steep. They have peaks. They are covered with rock. Hills are short and have rounded tops. They are more grassy than mountains. Both are raised parts of the land. Both have trees, rock, soil, and living organisms.
500
Natural resources are valuable because we depend on them to live. Name 3 ways we conserve our natural resources.
Recycle Reduce Reuse
500
The following are good safety rules to follow in an investigation EXCEPT: a. listen to all directions before starting the investigation b. do not touch, taste, or smell anything without teacher permission c. playing with the equipment used in the investigation
What is answer C?
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