Rock Cycle
The most likely place to find a dinosaur fossil is in ______________ Rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
True/False: Only some types of rock can go through the rock cycle.
The breaking down of rock on Earth’s surface into smaller pieces.
What is Weathering?
True/False: Erosion is the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces.
False: Erosion is the movment of pieces from one area to another. OR-Weathering is the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces.
Another name for Soil Layers
What is Horizons?
The layer below Humus is called...
What is Topsoil?
Sequence of process that change rocks into other types of rocks over long periods of time.
What is the Rock Cycle?
Another name for Magma.
What is Igneous Rock?
Name two types of Weathering...
What are Physical and Chemical Weathering?
True/False: Acid Rain chewing through a rock and changing its structure is an example of erosion...
False: It is an example of Chemical Weathering.
Which Layer are only the strongest roots from the biggest plants able to grow in?
What is Subsoil?
Largest parts of soil
What is Sand?
Rocks that are formed when lava cools and hardens on the surface.
What are Igneous Rocks?
What two things are needed to change sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock?
What is Heat and Pressure?
Weathering is the breaking down of rock into...
What is Sediment?
The moving of rocks from one place to another.
What is Erosion?
What is the lowest level of soil Horizons?
What is Bedrock?
True/False-There is only one layer of soil.
False-There are four layers of soil horizons.
When Metamorphic Rock is melted in the earth, it becomes....
What is (Magma or Igneous Rock)
When rocks are piled in layers on the surface due to pressure, sand and water, it is called
What is Sedimentary Rock?
How does Freezing Water cause the weathering of Rocks?
Water seeps into the rock, where it freezes and expands, and breaks it apart from the inside out.
How much humus would a desert environment have? Why?
Little, since there are few living things and water.
Remains of dead plants and animals in the soil.
What is Humus?
True/False: soil is made up of water, air and living things as well.
True
A solid, nonliving substance that occurs naturally in rocks or in the ground.
What is a Mineral?
Name the Three types of rock that are a part of the rock cycle (you need all four for credit)
What are....
Igneous Rock
Sedimentary Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Name 4 ways that Weathering can Occur?
What are...
Water, Wind, Ice, and Living things.
Name Three Ways that Rocks can be transported from one place to another.
What are...
Wind, Water, and Glaciers?
Name the for soil horizons IN THE RIGHT ORDER.
What are...
1. Humus
2. Top Soil
3. Sub Soil4. Bed Rock
Smallest Parts of Soil.
What is Clay?