Weathering & Erosion
Layers of Earth
Volcanos & Earthquakes
Rivers and Glaciers
Fossils
100
What do we call the breaking down of rock on earth's surface?
What is weathering
100
Earth's crust is broken into large ______?
What is plates.
100
Volcanoes are formed when what happens?
What is lava flows through a crack in earth's surface.
100
How do rivers change earth's surface
What is rushing water cuts into soil and rocks.
100
the remains or traces of an organism are called?
What is a fossil.
200
What are the two types of weathering called?
What is physical weathering and chemical weathering
200
What are the 4 layers of earth from hottest to coolest called?
What is inner core, outer core, mantle and crust.
200
Most earthquakes occur along what?
What is fault lines.
200
what do we call it when rivers drop soil and rock along where it flows?
What is deposition.
200
Earth's history can be found in what?
What is the fossil record.
300
What are the 4 causes of physical weathering?
What is water, ice, living things and wind.
300
In what layer of the earth is magma formed?
What is the mantle.
300
What are the names of the three types of volcanoes?
What is composite, shield, and cinder cone volcanoes
300
River deposition helps to form what type of land forms?
What is a delta
300
What step in the making of a fossil is "Sediment covers a clam and the soft parts decay?
What is step 1
400
What are two ways ice can cause physical weathering? Explain
What is it can freeze in cracks and split the rock and it can move in a glacier and grind the land.
400
Mountains are formed how?
What is the plates push together.
400
What does a seismograph do?
What is measures the movement of earth's surface during an earthquake.
400
What are the names of the the two main types of Glaciers?
What is alpine and sheet glaciers.
400
What is a trace fossil?
What is a fossil that doesn't show how the plant or animal looked but still tells us something about it.
500
What is the defintion of erosion?
What is erosion is the process of moving sediment.
500
What is the inner core of the earth mostly made of?
What is iron and nickel.
500
Why is the Ring of Fire called the "Ring of Fire" and where is it located?
What is most of the worlds volcanoes are found along the fault lines and it is located around the Pacific Ocean
500
What type of glaciers covered the earth thousands of years ago?
What is sheet glaciers.
500
What does the fossil record help scientist learn about Earth's environment?
What is how it has changed.
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