These "hot" landforms can be found underwater and on land.
What are volcanoes?
100
These precious stones are red in color?
What are rubies? (or garnets)
100
These can be deposited by wind, water, and ice.
What are sediments?
100
The hardest mineral on Mohs' scale.
What is diamond?
200
It is the smallest material in soil.
What is clay?
200
A break in earth’s crust where blocks of rock fracture and move.
What is a fault?
200
Crust, mantle, core are.
What are layers of the earth?
200
Physical weathering and chemical weathering are different. In _____ weathering smaller pieces of rock are created, but no chemical reaction has changed the rock in any way.
What is physical weathering?
200
These are properties used to identify rocks and minerals. (Name three)
What are cleavage, hardness, color, luster, or magnetism?
300
It provides nutrients to the soil, retains water, and is made up of decomposed plant parts.
What is humus?
300
Volcanoes, mountains, plateaus, faults, valleys, and deltas are types of...
What are landforms?
300
What natural event is most likely to make rock break apart?
What is freezing?
300
_____ is the settling of sediments.
What is deposition?
300
This scale is used to measure the hardness of rocks and minerals.
What is Mohs' scale.
400
There are many types of materials that make up soil. Sand is one of them. Three others are..
What are pebbles, gravel, silt, and hummus?
400
This natural disaster occurs when rock and soil quickly slide downhill.
What is a landslide?
400
These are made of minerals.
What are rocks?
400
Mesas, canyons, and valleys are formed by two forces.
What are erosion and weathering?
400
The range of the Mohs' scale is from ____ to ____.
What is one to ten?
500
There are many differences in soils. Some types of soil have different amounts of hummus or water in soil. Differences can also be....
What are textures of earth materials, size of earth materials, or types of earth materials.
500
When these happen new rock is added to Earth’s surface.
What are volcanic eruptions?
500
This type of rock is the kind that fossils are normally found in.
What are sedimentary rocks?
500
Beaches, landslides, and sand dunes are formed by...
What is deposition?
500
The precious minerals on the hard end of Mohs' Scale are called.