rocks, minerals, landforms 1
rocks, minerals, landforms 2
rocks, minerals, landforms 3
rocks, minerals, landforms 4
rocks, minerals, landforms 5
100
A solid object that was formed in nature and has never been alive is a _______.
What is a mineral?
100
One rock does not belong - red sandstone, pumice, limestone.
What is pumice?
100
The hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
100
rock that has been formed by heat and pressure
What is a metamorphic rock?
100
A very soft mineral that is used each day at school.
What is graphite (pencil "lead")?
200
A rock that was once melted but has now cooled and hardened-
What is an igneous rock?
200
the process by which rocks are changed from one kind to another
What is the rock cycle?
200
Reason the earth's core remains solid despite high heat.
What is the weight of the whole planet presses in on the core?
200
explain how plants can cause weathering
What is When plant roots grow into cracks in rock causing the rock to split?
200
Explain how frozen water causes weathering.
What is "Water flows into cracks and holes in rocks. It freezes and expands, widening cracks and breaking the rock into pieces."?
300
Forms from material that has settled into layers that are squeezed together to form rock-
What is sedimentary rock?
300
The layers of the earth-
What are crust, mantle, core?
300
That explains how erosion helps create a delta.
What is "Rain washes soil from hills and fields. The soil flows into a river. The river carries the soil downstream. The river slows at its mouth and drops the soil creating a delta."
300
Earthquakes, volcanoes, floods
What are rapid changes to the earth's surface?
300
earthquakes, volcanoes, floods
What are rapid changes to the Earth's surface?
400
The three properties of minerals
What is hardness, color, and shape?
400
A thick layer of rock; some of the rock is soft like taffy.
What is the mantle?
400
That explains the relationship of erosion and sand dunes.
What is "The wind carries loose pieces of rock and sand from one place to another. The faster the wind blows, the more rock and sand it can carry. When the wind slows down, it drops the sand it carries."
400
That explains how glaciers change the land as they slide over it.
What is "They scrape up rocks and soil and pile them into hills. The scrapie up rock and soil and leave behind huge holes that sometimes become lakes. Between mountains, they scoop out deep valleys."
400
A landmass and a continent covered mostly by continental glaciers.
What are Greenland and Antarctica?
500
Names of three places where sediment might build up and eventually form sedimentary rock
What are the bottoms of rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans ? (name 3 of 4)
500
Three minerals that you ingest (eat)
What are iron, zinc, and salt?
500
landform caused by the folding of the Earth's crust
What is a mountain?
500
landform caused by water erosion, such as a river cutting through rock.
What is a canyon?
500
landform created when sand in moving water is dropped near the shore
What is a barrier island?
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