A crack in the earth's crust along which rocks move.
What is a fault?
200
3 major landforms.
What are mountains, plateaus, and plains?
200
Forces of weathering.
What are water (ice and flowing over rocks), temperature (freezing and thawing), and plant roots?
200
How metamorphic rocks form.
What is by great heat and pressure inside the earth?
200
Natural resources that cannot be renewed.
What are non-renewable resources?
200
Volcanoes can change Earth's surface quickly or slowly.
What is quickly?
300
These are sections of rock that make up the Earth's crust.
What are plates?
300
Forces of erosion.
What are water, wind, glaciers (ice)?
300
3 types of rock.
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
300
3 ways to conserve natural resources.
What are reduce, recycle, reuse, etc?
400
3 types of volcanoes.
What is active, dormant, and extinct?
400
Ways that farmers control erosion.
What are planting cover crops, planting trees on steep hills, and plowing their fields in rows?
400
What soil is made of.
What is sand, silt, clay, air, decaying plants and animals, water, animals (living), etc?
400
Example of a renewable and nonrenewable resource.
What are trees and oil (fossil fuels)?
400
3 physical properties of minerals.
What are luster, hardness, and color?
500
This causes earthquakes.
What is rocks move along a fault, causing the ground to shake?
500
This is evidence you might see that erosion has occurred in the desert.
What is a dune?
500
How an igneous rock can become sedimentary rock.
What is igneous rock becomes weathered, erosion moves the sediment, breaks them down further, and deposits them into an ocean or lake and over time become cemented together by pressure and become sedimentary rock?