Key Vocabulary
Sandbars, barrier islands, and beaches are examples of.
What is deposition?
A strong repeated force the ocean produces that mechanically weathers rock.
What are waves?
The moon phase where the entire moon is illuminated.
What is a full moon?
Name one of the two major nicknames for Santa Claus.
What is Kris Kringle or Saint Nick? (Other answers may be considered.)
Humans are a major factor in this rock cycle process.
What is erosion?
The type of mechanical weathering that breaks apart rock with tree roots.
What is biological?
The plate boundary type where two plates move apart.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
Merry Christmas in Spanish.
What is Feliz Navidad?
The rock type where the rock is permanently altered due to heat and pressure
What is metamorphic rock?
Another name for the chemical weathering process of rusting.
What is oxidation?
Molten material that is underground.
What is magma?
Scrooge's first name?
What is Ebeneezer?
The cone shaped rock on the ceiling of caves.
What are Stalactites?
A type of bird with a very large colorful beak.
What is a toucan?
This popular Christmas beverage is also called “milk punch?”
What is eggnog?
The fancy name for chemical weathering, reaction with water.
What is Hydrolysis?
When a river cuts itself off it makes a ______ lake.
What is Oxbow?
The type of carnivorous plant that is in the shape of a bowl that dissolves insects, flies, and even small mammals.
What is a pitcher plant?
Buddy the elf sticks to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy
corns and __.
What is syrup?