Rock Cycle
These types of rocks are formed by the deposition of sediment.
What are sedimentary rocks?
These are the three types of rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
Name three of the things that make up soil.
What are rock particles, minerals, humus (decayed organic material), water, and air?
The three processes that continually change the surface of Earth by moving rocks and soil.
What is weathering, erosion, and deposition?
The four major types of erosion.
What are water, wave, glacial, and wind erosion?
The process of rocks recycling through the earth.
What is the rock cycle?
The rocks in Image #1
What are igneous rocks?
The three layers of soil.
What are topsoil, subsoil, and bedrock?
The most important factors that determine the rate of weathering.
What are the type of rock and the climate of the area?
This type of erosion forms U-shaped valleys.
What is glacial erosion?
This type of rock is formed when rocks are squished under a lot of pressure with a lot of heat.
What are Metamorphic rocks?
The rocks in Image #2
What are metamorphic rocks?
This process reduces the value of soil by removing the fertile topsoil.
What is erosion?
Name two different types of mass movement.
What are landslides, mudflows, slumps, and creep?
What are wave-cut cliffs, headlands, sea stacks, sea arches, beaches, spits, and sandbars?
These rocks are formed by cooling magma and lava.
What are igneous rocks?
The rocks in Image #3
What are sedimentary rocks?
List two of the ways that soil can be conserved.
What are crop rotation, contour plowing, protective vegetation, and natural fertilizers?
Putting sediment down is this type of mass movement.
What is deposition?
The three ways wind moves sediment.
What is picking up (light sediment), bouncing (medium sediment), and rolling/scooting (heavy sediment)?
The chemical elements that make up all rocks.
What are minerals?
These are the scientist who study rocks.
Who are geologists?
Important natural tool for preventing erosion and holding soil in place.
What are plant roots?
This is the slowest form of mass movement.
What is creep?
This feature is formed when a meander is cut off from a river.
What is an oxbow lake?