Water Cycle
What is the sun's role in the water cycle?
Provide heat energy that causes the water to evaporate
When forming sedimentary rock the first step is _____, which allows us to have sediment.
weathering
What are the 3 kinds of fossil fuels?
Coal, Oil, and natural gases
Which agent of change causes U-shaped valleys?
Ice
How are sand dunes formed?
Wind creates mounds of sand due to moving sediment.
What is the ocean's role in the water cycle?
It holds water that can be evaporated into the clouds.
What part of the process adds pressure to the rock to get it to form new rocks?
Compaction
Where is coal formed?
Swamps
Which agent of change causes canyons to form?
Water
What processes occur when wind forms a sand dune?
Erosion and deposition
Which part of the water cycle is responsible for releasing water that is stored in the clouds?
Precipitation.
Sediment is picked up by a stream and carried towards the ocean. Which sedimentary rock formation processes is described in the sentence?
Erosion
Which resources are formed in ocean areas?
Oil and Natural Gases
Sand dunes use which agent of change to form?
Sand
Where are deltas located?
The mouth of the ocean that meets the river.
What mixes with the air particles and moisture in the air to form clouds?
Dust particles
In deltas the rocks settle to the bottom of the area between the ocean and the river. What process is being described in the question?
Deposition
Each layer must have heat and pressure applied to it.
Which agent of change is used to form a V-Shaped Valley?
Ice
How are deltas formed?
deposition of sediment where the lip of the river meets the ocean.
List the order of steps that occur in the water cycle starting with Evapoartion.
Evaporation- Condensation- Precipitation
What is the step by step processes of creating sedimentary rock?
Compaction, Deposition, Weathering, Erosion, Cementation
Weathering- Erosion- Deposition- Compaction- Cementation
Which fossil fuel is made only of dead plant remains?
Coal
What landforms occur most in mountain ranges?
Valleys
How does a glacier erode rocks?
pushes the objects as ice and settles them in place once it has melted away.