Fossils
W.E.D.C.C.
Fossil Fuels
Landforms
Vocabulary
Soil
100
This is the only type of rock fossils can be found in.
What is sedimentary rock?
100
True or False?
Earth's surface has been the same for millions of years.
False
Earth's surface is constantly changing.
100
These are the three types of fossil fuels.
What are oil (petroleum), natural gas, and coal?
100
This landform constantly and easily changes due to wind erosion picking up and depositing sediment.
What is a sand dune? 
100
This is any solid matter (sand, rock, soil, and organic matter) that gets deposited and settled into layers on Earth's surface when eroded by wind, water, or ice.
What is sediment?
100
Which Soil type is the smallest?
Clay
200
True or False. Fossils can help scientists tell what environments were in an area in the past.
True
200
Process, 5 steps, that forms sedimentary rock.
What is...Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, Compaction, and Cementation?
200
The remains of microscopic ocean organisms that had been buried in layers of sediment and under heat and pressure and after millions of years turned into these types of fossil fuels.
What are oil (petroleum) and natural gas?
200
This landform is created over millions of years. A river has eroded sediment and cut deep into the earth's surface leaving steep, stair-like cliffs.
What is a canyon?
200
The true name for the fossil fuel oil.
What is petroleum?
200
Which soil type retains the least water?
Sand
300
A scientist who studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
300
Examples of rapid changes to Earth's surface.
What are...volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides?
300
Remains of plants deposited in wet, swampy environment, many layers of plants accumulate creating heat and pressure leading to formation of peat, over millions of years, heat and pressure turn peat into this type of fossil fuel.
What is coal?
300
The deposition of sediment at the mouth of a river is responsible for this triangular shaped landform.
What is a delta?
300
The process in which sediment is moved from one location to another location by wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
300
Which type of soil has medium particles and is found in river beds?
Silt
400
This is what covered some ancient organisms preserving them for thousands or millions of years allowing them to become fossilized.
What is layers of sediment?
400
The three main forces that change Earth's surface.
What are...Wind, Water, and Ice?
400
The length of time it takes for fossil fuels to form and why fossil fuels are considered nonrenewable.
What is... millions of years?
400
This type of landform was created when a glacier traveled down and in the process carved and smoothed the valley walls.
What is a U-shaped valley?
400
A remnant, impression, or trace of an organism of past geologic ages that has been preserved in the earth's crust.
What is a fossil?
400
Which soil type is best for most plants and is a mixture of all sand, silt, and clay?
Loam
500
Double Points!
The 3 things fossils and fossil fuels have in common.
What is...
takes millions of years to form,
can be found in sedimentary rock, and
were made from once living organisms?
500
Process in which sediment is squeezed by the weight and pressure of overlying layers and the process in which sediments are glued together by minerals that are deposited by water therefore turning sediment into sedimentary rock.
W. E. D. C. C.
What are Compaction and Cementation?
500
Reasons we need to conserve fossil fuels.
What is...
fossil fuels are running out?
fossil fuels create pollution?
fossil fuels take millions of years to form?
500
Double Points!
These are the three agents of change responsible for the creation of most landforms on Earth.
What are....Wind, Water and Ice (Glaciers)?
500
The surroundings or conditions in which animals or plants live. We use fossils to tell us what this was like millions of years ago.
What is an environment?
500
Name the soil types in order smallest to largest. Not including loam.
Clay, Silt, Sand