Rock Cycle
This type of rock can preserve plants and animals in fossil form.
What is sedimentary rock?
The process where rock is dissolved, worn away or broken down into small pieces
What is weathering?
This causes water to evaporate
What is the sun's heat?
What are the units of volume on a graduated cylinder
Milliliter or mL
True or False: Wood is a fossil fuel
What is false
The super continent
What is pangea?
Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations, true or false?
What is true?
Where is 97% of the Earth's water found?
What is the ocean?
True or False: Leaving electronic devices plugged in or on standby when you are not using them increases your carbon footprint.
A theory that explained how continents shift position on Earth's surface
What is continental drift?
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
The cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land
What is the water cycle?
The density of water
1 g/mL
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Found mainly in the lithosphere, formed when there is high pressure and high temperatures
What is metamorphic rock?
Weathering changes the earth's surface [slowly] OR [quickly]
What is slowly?
This causes clouds to form
Water vapor cooling and condensing in the atmosphere
The formula to find density
Density = mass/volume
What has been happening to the concentrations of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the past 200 years?
What is it has been increasing
Who is Harry Hess?
Name a difference between weathering and erosion
What is weathering makes things small, erosion moves it?
________ is the only substance on Earth that is found as solid, liquid and gas naturally
What is water?
Draw two boxes - label one box A and the other B, draw A with high density particles, and B low density particles
Box A has particles close together, Box B has particles far apart
Name three effects of climate change
Melting glaciers, severe storms, rising sea levels