Water Cycle
Weather
Earth's Landforms 1
Earth's Landforms 2
Fossils
100
These form when water vapor cools and condenses on dust particles in the air.
What is clouds
100
This forms when water vapor turns directly into ice.
What is snow?
100
Layer beneath the crust
What is the mantle?
100
The shape of landforms in an area
What is topography?
100
Most fossils form in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
200
This causes the water cycle to continually occur.
What is the sun's energy?
200
Fast spinning spiral of wind that stretches from a thunderstorm to the ground.
What is a tornado?
200
When two continental plates meet this is formed.
What is a mountain or mountain chain?
200
When two plates along a fault shift quickly.
What is an earthquake?
200
The main source of clues about Earth's history that is contained in fossils.
What is fossil record?
300
A cold water bottle with water dripping on the outside is an example of what?
What is condensation?
300
Florida has lots of strong sea breeze storms because of its shape. Florida is a ________.
What is peninsula?
300
Deltas and floodplains are formed by this.
What is deposition?
300
A mountain that forms when lava flows through a crack onto Earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
300
The wood of a tree that has been replaced by rock.
What is petrified wood?
400
When liquid water changes into a gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
400
These cause changes in weather.
What is moving air masses?
400
Landform with steep walls and a narrow floor.
What is a canyon?
400
A large moving mass of ice
What is a glacier?
400
The remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago
What is a fossil?
500
The continuous movement of water from Earth's surface to the air and back again.
What is the water cycle?
500
The border between two air masses.
What is a front?
500
Where do dunes form?
What is along sandy coasts?
500
The dropping of sand and sediment as a river flows.
What is deposition?
500
Scientists use this time scale to understand better what was living during each part of Earth's long history.
What is the geologic time scale?
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