Changes in the Earth's Surface
Landforms
Materials of the Earth
Solar System
Clouds and Storms
100
A special type of mountain with an openin or vent at it's top.
What is a volcano?
100
A piece of land completely surrounded on all sides by water.
What is an isalnd?
100
Materials that form in the Earth from non living matter.
What is a mineral?
100
A very large mass of hot, glowing gases.
What is a star?
100
A form of water that falls to the ground from the clouds.
What is percipitation?
200
Shaking or sliding of the Earth's surface of the Earth.
What is an earthquake?
200
A large, flat area of land.
What is a plain?
200
These are the 3 different types of soil.
What are loam, clay soil, sandy soil ?
200
The path an object follows as it moves around another object.
What is an orbit?
200
A mass of many water droplets or bits of ice that float in the air.
What is a cloud?
300
Hot, melted rock and gases deep inside the Earth.
What is magma?
300
A large body of water that is almost totally surrounded by land. Hint: Larger than a pond.
What is a lake?
300
The hardened parts or mark left by an organism that lived a long time ago.
What is a fossil?
300
These planets have rings made of ice, gases and rocks.
What are Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune?
300
These clouds form high in the sky where it is very cold.
What are high, feathery clouds?
400
Volcano and earthquakes cause these kinds of changes to the Earth's surface.
What is a fast land change?
400
A very high place on the Earth's surface.
What is a mountain?
400
Decayed organisms in soil.
What is humus?
400
This planet lies on it's side.
What is Uranus?
400
The movement of water from the Earth to the air and back to the Earth.
What is the water cycle?
500
The area of the Earth where volcanoes and earthquakes seem to happen most frequently.
What is the "Ring of Fire?"
500
A shape on the Earth's surface.
What are landforms?
500
In this layer of soil you will find roots, animals and humus. Some small pieces of rock might be found in this layer too.
What is the top soil layer?
500
The shape of the lighted part of the moon.
What are the phases of the moon?
500
The different types of clouds.
What are cirrus, cumulus and stratus clouds?
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