The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations. True or False
What is True?
100
A (valley, plain) is a low narrow area between hills or mountains
What is a valley?
100
The difference between weathering and erosion is:
a. weathering causes a quick change in landforms and erosion causes a slow change in landforms.
b. weathering breaks rocks into sediments and erosion moves sediment from one place to another.
What is B?
100
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediments?
200
Mountains and other surface features of the land.
What are landforms?
200
When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart.
What is freezes?
200
What is the best soil for Petunia the flower? (clay, sandy or loam soil)
What is loam soil?
200
The difference between erosion and deposition is:
a. erosion moves sediment from one place to another and deposition is a physical feature on the Earth.
b. deposition is the process of dropping , or depositing , sediment in a new location and erosion is the process of moving sediment from one place to another.
What is B?
200
Gigantic formations of ice that do not completely melt over the course of a year.
What is a glacier?
300
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
300
The ________ is the salt water that covers almost three-fourths of Earth's surface
What is an ocean?
300
Which type of rock is formed from melted rock that sometimes forms beneath the Earth's surface? (Igneous, Metamorphic or Sedimentary rock)
What is Igneous rock?
300
What is the order of deposition, weathering and erosion?
What is weathering, erosion then deposition?
300
A _______ is an opening in Earth's crust. Pressure inside Earth can force hot, melted rock up through the ______?
What is a volcano?
400
What are huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land?
What are glaciers?
400
Fast flowing rivers can pick up and carry rocks (far/short) distances.
What is far?
400
Small rocks make up loam soil. What other three things make up loam soil?
What is water, air, and humus?
400
What's the difference between lava and magma?
What is lava is magma that has flowed onto Earth's surface?
400
What is deposition
What is the placing of pieces on Earth's surface in a new place?
500
What is the sudden and violent shaking of the ground?
What is an earthquake?
500
All of the following are forces that change landforms EXCEPT:
a. wind b. moving water c. glaciers c. physical features
What is physical features?
500
What is the hardest mineral?
What is a diamond?
500
What is the difference between a plateau and a plain?
A plateau is a plain that is higher than the land around it?
500
Nonliving, solid material that are formed in nature and made of crystals.