Earth's Features
Maps show us these Earth's features.
What are mountains, rivers, and other landforms?
The movement of rocks and soil by water, wind, ice, or gravity.
What is erosion?
The breaking down of rocks into smaller parts.
What is weathering?
Remains or traces of ancient things.
What is a fossil?
Rock formed from layers of sediment.
What is sedimentary rock?
Maps can help us understand changes in the landscape by showing us this.
What is by showing the location of different features over time?
Vegetation prevents erosion by doing this.
What is by holding the soil in place by roots?
Waves crashing against the shore is an example of this type of weathering.
What is water?
Fossils are the remains of __________living things.
What are ancient?
Layers of rock located deeper within the Earth are _________than the layers above it.
What are older?
One way to analyze data from maps.
What is by looking at patterns of features like mountains or rivers?
The type of erosion that carries away rock and soil.
What is water/ice?
Examples of types of weathering.
What is wind, water, ice, or gravity?
The patterns of rock formations help scientists understand this.
What is how the landscape changes over time?
The layers of rock that are different from the layers above and below it.
What is a rock layer (sedimentary rock)?
Patterns of Earth's features on maps tells us this.
What is the history of the landscape?
Erosion is the movement of rocks and soil by water, wind, ice, or _______________.
What is gravity?
Expanding in cracks and breaking rocks apart is caused by this.
What is ice?
How scientists can tell the age of a rock layer.
What is by the plants and animals that live in it?
The presence of marine fossils in rock layers tell us this.
What is that the area was underwater long ago?
Maps can be used to help us understand the patterns of Earth's features by___________________.
What is by showing us the location of landforms and how the Earth changed over time?
One way to observe the effects of erosion.
What is by measuring the amount of soil moved by water?
The differences between weathering and erosion.
What is weathering is breaking apart rocks into smaller pieces and erosion moves the pieces to new locations?
This is what fossils can tell us about the past.
What are the plants and animals that lived long ago?
Rock layers change over time due to this.
What is movement caused by earthquakes and other natural events?