True or false: A chicken bone is a fossil.
This landform covers most of the midwest and is made of flat land.
What is a plain?
This is the largest body of water on Earth, and is mostly salt water.
What is an ocean?
This sphere refers to all of the water on Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
The breaking down of rocks into sediments is best described as this.
What is weathering?
A stone mold of plant or animal remains is called this.
What is a fossil?
This landform is a U or V-shaped lowland between two hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
This body of water is freshwater and flowing, but smaller than a river.
What is a stream?
This sphere refers to all the living things on the Earth.
What is the biosphere?
The movement of sediments from one place to another.
What is erosion?
Scientists find a fossil in the desert that looks like a fish. They infer that the environment used to look like this.
What is an ocean/lake/stream/body of water?
This landform can be created by uplift from tectonic plates smashing into each other.
What are mountains?
This body of water is the only one that is in the "solid" state of matter.
What is a glacier?
This sphere refers to all the rocks/minerals on the Earth.
What is the geosphere?
These are the four agents that cause weathering.
What are rain, plants, wind, and glaciers (gravity also accepted)?
Scientists use fossils to determine what Earth looked like in the past by doing this.
What is looking at where they were found and what they look like?
This landform is a body of land surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
This body of water is a mix of fresh and salt water and can be found close to where rivers meet the ocean.
What are estuaries?
This sphere refers to all of the gases on Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Sediments stacking up on top of each other, creating a new bank or delta.
What is deposition?
Scientists use fossils to determine what Earth looked like in the past by doing this.
Make inferences on where the fossil was found and what it looks like?
This landform connects two bodies of land between two large bodies of water, and is sometimes called a "land bridge."
What is an isthmus?
This body of water is saltwater and is usually found between two mountain ranges. There are many in Norway!
What are fjords?
Deer, trees, and grass in a meadow make up this sphere of the Earth.
What is the biosphere?
What are glaciers?