Sun and Water
This process describes water turning from a liquid into a gas because of heat from the Sun.
Evaporation
Sedimentary rocks are usually formed from small pieces of broken rock packed together. What is the name for those small pieces?
Sediments
The wearing away and movement of rock or soil by water, wind, or ice is called what?
Erosion
Means the movement of rock from place to place
Eosion
Ms. Morgan's first name
Rylah
Name the process where water vapor cools and changes back into liquid droplets to form clouds.
Condensation
What process squeezes and presses sediments together to form sedimentary rock?
Compaction
Which landform often forms where a river slows and drops sediment as it meets a lake or ocean?
Delta
When the rock gets stuck together
Cementation
What town is Ms. Morgan from
Brownwood
What is the movement of water from plants into the air called?
Transpiration
Name one type of evidence often found in sedimentary rocks that shows ancient life.
Fossils
What type of landform is made when wind moves sand into large, ripple-like hills?
Sand Dune
When the rock is placed down in it's place
Deposition
What college did Ms. Morgan go to?
Texas A&M University
Describe how the Sun affects ocean water to help form winds and weather patterns
The Sun heats ocean water, causing evaporation; uneven heating causes differences in air pressure and temperature, which drives wind and influences weather patterns
Explain how heat and pressure over very long time can turn ancient plant material into a fossil fuel.
Over millions of years, buried plant material is subjected to high pressure and heat; chemical changes transform it into coal, oil, or natural gas.
Describe how a canyon can form over time by the action of a river.
A river cuts into rock and soil over long periods; moving water carries away sediment and deepens the channel, eventually forming a steep-sided valley or canyon.
When the rock is broken apart
Weathering
Ms. Morgans birthday
09/05
Explain how the Sun and the ocean work together in the water cycle to cause a coastal rainstorm
(1) Sun heats ocean surface → (2) water evaporates and rises → (3) moisture condenses into clouds and falls as rain over the coast.
Give a short sequence (3 steps) that shows how sediments become sedimentary rock and how that rock can contain fossils.
(1) Sediments are deposited in layers → (2) layers are buried, compacted, and cemented into rock → (3) organisms buried in those layers become fossils preserved in the sedimentary rock.
Compare and contrast how water and wind create landforms — give one example for each and one similarity.
Water example — river forming a delta by depositing sediment at a mouth; Wind example — wind forming sand dunes by moving and piling sand. Similarity — both move and deposit sediment and change the shape of the land over time.
When the rock is pressed together.
Compaction
Ms. Morgan's cats names
Binx and Winifred