These are the three main layers we divide the Earth into.
What is crust, mantle, and core?
100
This is the process of moving sediment from one location to another.
What is erosion?
100
This is the process of breaking sediments into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
This is the process of depositing or dropping off sediment.
What is deposition?
200
This is what density tells us about the particles of a substance.
What is how compact/close they are to each other?
200
This is the reason our planet has different layers.
What is density/the layers have different densities?
200
This is one way sediment might be carried somewhere new.
What is running water, wind, a glacier, a landslide, etc.
200
This is one type of weathering where water can get into cracks between rock and then change and expand and crack the rock even more.
What is freezing?
200
This size of particle is usually deposited first.
What is the largest particles?
300
A block has sides measuring 2 cm by 4 cm by 10 cm. It's mass is 800 g. This is its density...
What is 10 g/cm3?
300
This is what material we think the core of the Earth must be made of (since our planet generates a magnetic field).
What is metal? (specifically iron)
300
These are the three main types of rock.
What is igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic?
300
This type of weathering is caused by a giant sheet of ice and leaves sediment in a random pattern.
What is glacial weathering/ a glacier?
300
This is the order particles are deposited based on density.
What is from most dense to least dense?
400
A rock has a mass of 40 g. It makes the water in a graduated cylinder rise from 20 to 25 ml. This is its density...
What is 8 g/cm3?
400
This is what happens to temperature, pressure, and density as you go deeper into the Earth.
What is they all increase?
400
This how you can tell the difference between a valley made by river erosion versus a valley made by glacier erosion.
What is a river valley is V-shaped and a glacier valley is U-shaped.
400
This type of weathering is why beaches are usually just one type of sandy sediment that are all the same size.
What is waves?
400
These are the two directions that layers of sorted sediment are deposited.
What is horizontally and vertically?
500
Four substances are poured into a jar. They are sand (density 2.6), gravel (density 3.5), soil (density 2.5), and water. What order will they form layers in from bottom to top?
What is gravel, sand, soil, water?
500
This is what we call the giant pieces the crust layer of the Earth is broken into (and they move around).
What is plates? Or tectonic plates?
500
These are the three ways that running water (like a river) can move particles of sediment.
What are suspension, bouncing and/or rolling?
500
This is ultimately the force that drives weathering and erosion.
What is gravity?
500
This is a feature created by deposition where a river meets the ocean and deposits all the smaller particles.