Soil
Sediments
Rocks
Weathering/Erosion
Rock Cycle
100
In what great State did Mrs. Scheffer grow up in?
What is Kentucky!!
100
How many children does Mrs. Scheffer have?
What is 4
100
Where did Mrs. Scheffer receive an athletic scholarship to swim?
What is University of Toledo? Go Rockets!
100
If Mrs. Scheffer was not a teacher, name one of the two jobs she would like to do.
What is physical therapy or a mascot for a professional team!
100
Name 1 of the many vacation spots that Mrs. Scheffer would like to visit soon!
What is Hawaii, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Grand Canyon or Las Vegas!
200
Name two things that make up soil.
Sediments, humus, biotic factors, weathered rock, water
200
What are two differences between the different sediments that we studied?
What is size, color, texture, or permeability?
200
Rocks are made up of 1 or more____________.
What is minerals?
200
This is what you call it when rocks break down into sediments.
What is weathering?
200
How would an igneous rock turn into a sedimentary rock?
What is it would have to be weathered, and deposited into layers? Time and pressure would turn the sediments into a sedimentary rock.
300
T of F All Soil is the same.
What is False
300
Which is more permeable? clay or sand?
Sand
300
What are the 3 categories of rocks?
What is sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous?
300
Oxidation is this type of weathering.
What is chemical?
300
If Heat and Pressure is added to a sedimentary rock, what type does it become?
What is METAMORPHIC?
400
What is Humus?
Decaying Material with all the Good Nutrients!
400
Which sediment would be the best on the bottom of a pond, why?
What is clay because it does not allow water to permeate through it as easily?
400
Which type of rocks tends to have the most layers?
What is sedimentary? Fossils too!
400
This is what happens when sediments are moved from place to place.
What is erosion?
400
When sediments or rocks come in contact with extreme heat and magma, they could become which type of rock when it cools?
What is igneous?
500
Why do we need Soil?
Soil provides the nutrients (humus) that plants need. We need plants for survival. Some animals need the soil for habitat.
500
Put the sediments that we learned about in order from smallest to largest.
What is clay, silt, sand, and pebbles/gravel?
500
Which category of rocks are directly related to volcanic activity?
What is igneous?
500
Give three examples of things that cause weathering?
What is wind, water, ice, and glacier plucking and abrasion.
500
What must happen first for a metamorphic or igneous rock to become a sedimentary rock?
What is the metamorphic and igneous rock must be weathered into sediments?
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