This is the result of Earth's plates moving suddenly and causing the earth to shake.
What is an earthquake?
100
Name a way that river water and well water are different.
What is river water is above the Earth's surface and well water is underground?
100
A slow moving body of ice is known as a _____________.
What is a glacier?
100
This type of precipitation never condenses to liquid water. It condenses into ice crystals.
What is snow.
200
Explain how plants can cause weathering.
What is a plant can grow in a crack. As the plant grows, the crack gets larger eventually causing the rock to break apart?
200
This type of natural disaster occurs when heavy rains or earthquakes loosen rock and dirt on a steep slope. Gravity pulls the loosened material downward.
What is a landslide?
200
Name a way that volcanos and earthquakes are similar.
What is volcanos and earthquakes can both change the shape of a landform.
200
The way glaciers can cause weathering and erosion is ...
What is glaciers can break off pieces of rock and carry rocks and/or debris from one place to another?
200
This type of precipitation condenses into the clouds as liquid water and returns back down to Earth in the liquid form.
What is rain?
300
Explain how animals can causes weathering.
What is animals give off chemicals that can cause weathering. Humans can also complete activities that can cause weathering.
300
This type of natural disaster is an eruption from a mountain with an opening in the Earth's crust where magma reaches the surface
What is a volcanic eruption?
300
Name a way that floods and droughts are different.
What is floods are a period of extremely wet weather and droughts are a period of extremely dry weather conditions.
300
A drought can cause weathering and/or erosion by ...
What is a drought can cause the ground to be extremely dry and rivers, creeks and lakes can dry up and erode away.
300
This type of precipitation begins falling as liquid water. The temperature is colder on Earth than 32 degrees. The liquid water freezes on contact when it reaches objects on Earth.
What is freezing rain?
400
Explain how cracks in a rock get larger when water freeze in the cracks.
What is water expands when it freeze, making the cracks in the rocks get larger?
400
This type of natural disaster is fast moving water that can uproot trees, carry large rocks and change the water flows on Earth's surface.
What is a flood?
400
Name a way that landslides and floods are similar.
What are both are the results of extreme amounts of rain. Both can cause erosion.
400
Earth's surface is made up of this percentage of water.
What is 75% or 3/4 water?
400
This type of precipitation has to do with two different types of fronts (warm and cold) colliding. The wind pushes the liquid water back up into the clouds where it freezes. This cycle continues over and over, until this precipitation falls to the ground.
What is hail?
500
Explain one way weathering changes landforms.
What is weathering can break rocks into smaller pieces by water, wind and ice; landforms can become smaller as rocks break down, new landforms can also be formed when weathered rock is moved.
500
Floods can cause ____________ and ___________ to occur in an area.
What is weathering and erosion?
500
Name a way that weathering and erosion are different.
What is weathering is the breaking down of rock and erosion is the carrying away of the weathered rock?
500
This percentage of the Earth's water is made up of clean drinking water.
What is 3%.
500
This type of precipitation begins to fall as liquid water. The liquid water goes through a cold pocket of air and turns into ice pellets.