Weathering
Physical and Chemical Changes
Earthquakes and Faults
Electricity
Grab Bag
100
What does NOT cause erosion (water, wind, ice, or sunlight?)
Sunlight
100
What kind of change is rusting iron?
Chemical change
100
What causes an earthquake?
plates moving
100
How do you make an electromagnet stronger?
Adding more coils
100
What can flowers produce that moss can't?
Seeds
200
Limestone is a sedimentary rock. How does acid rain affect limestone?
Breaking it down (chemical weathering)
200
If you break a piece of glass, the shape of the glass changes, but the properties in the fragments remain the same. Which of the following has occurred?
A Physical Change
200
What two landforms result when one of Earth's plates slides past another?
Mountains and volcanoes
200
You have a circuit with 5 lightbulbs. One goes out. What will happen to the other 4 lightbulbs?
They will stay on
200
Iron is most likely to rust when it is ______________.
damp/wet
300
What causes the MOST erosion on Earth?
glaciers
300
If enough heat is taken away from a container of water, what will happen to the water (what form of matter will it be?)
It will become a solid
300
What happens when earthquakes occur underwater?
Tsunamis
300
Clothes spinning around in a dryer will cause ____________ ___________________.
static electricity
300
Weigh a classmate. Record. Have them remove their shoes and socks. Weigh items and record. They should remove any other items that they can (outer shirt, watch, jewelry, jacket). Weigh items and record. Weigh the classmate again and add all the item weights together. Compare the results of the first weigh in to the last. What conclusion do you reach?
The weight is the same!
400
What happens when water freezes in a crack of a rock?
Physical weathering/rock breaks open
400
When water boils, it turns from a ______________ to a ________________.
liquid; gas
400
You rub a comb with a piece of wool. What has now happened to the charges in the comb?
The comb is now negatively charged
400
Karen has two sisters and one younger brother. Her parents and grandmother also live with her. She is the only blonde in her family. However, everyone in her family has brown eyes. Which of these is being described in the passage?
Inherited Traits
500
Give an example of chemical weathering. Give an example of physical weathering.
Varied responses
500
If you mixed two substances in a chemical change, they would form a new _______________.
compound
500
What is the difference between a fault and a plate?
A plate is a piece of the Earth's crust; a fault is a crack in the Earth's crust
500
Explain two ways that a closed circuit and an open circuit are different.
Answers will vary
500
Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals all belong to which group?
Vertebrates
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