Layers
Slow and Fast
Glaciers
Changes
Mixed Bag
100
What do the fossils at the bottom layer tell you about the landscape?
It was once covered in water
100
Give three examples of fast changes to Earth's landscape.
Earthquake
Flood
Volcano
Etc.
100
What do we call the large piles of debris left behind by glaciers?
Moraine
100
What is the process that removes soil, rock, or other material from one location on the Earth's crust to another location?
Erosion
100
It’s as light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold it for more than five minutes. What is it?
Breath
200
Where are the oldest rock layers found?
On the bottom
200
Give three examples of slow changes to Earth's landscape.
Ice wedging
Glacier
Wind erosion
Etc.
200
Tell what these are called and how they were formed?
Erratics
They are large rocks left behind by glaciers in odd formations
200
What is the breaking down of rocks and soil.
Weathering
200
A farmer has 19 sheep on his land. One day, a big storm hits and all but seven run away. How many sheep does the farmer have left?
7
300
We see plant and animal fossils and then fossils from water creatures suggesting it went from a water to land environment
300
What is this phenomenon called?
Root wedging
300
What is this type of landscape called?
Fjord
300
What best explains how this was formed?
Wind erosion
300
What are the largest and smallest states?
Alaska
Rhode Island
400
How are the layers in the rock like pages in our history books?
They give us information about what life on Earth was like long ago
400
What is the most logical explanation for what happened to this mountaintop?
A volcano erupted
400
Create a simile that helps to describe a glacier.
A glacier is like...
A glacier is as slow as...
A glacier is as cold as...
400
What best explains what happened in this photo?
Water erosion
400
Name a specific type of
mammal
bird
reptile
amphibian
fish
Multiple answers
500
What was the BIG idea in our delicious layers of the earth investigation?
The layers at the bottom are the first that are put down and so they are the oldest layers
500
What best explains how this rock split?
Ice or frost wedging
500
Is there evidence that this landscape was formed by a glacier?
No, there is not evidence this landscape was formed by a glacier.
500
As ice forms in the cracks of the street in front of WES, the water expands and pushes against the surrounding parts of the road, making the cracks wider, eventually breaking apart the blacktop. Big holes form in the road.
What is this process called?
Weathering
500
My cousin had 3 dozen eggs. When she opened the containers, 7 were broken. How many eggs were left unbroken?
36 - 7 =
29 eggs