What's It Mean?
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Slow or Quick Changes
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
100
The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
weathering
100
Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations. True or False
What is True?
100
Volcanoes change Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is quickly?
100
This type of rock is created when magma breaches the Earth's surface, becomes lava and cools.
IGNEOUS ROCK
100
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediments?
200
Mountains, hills, plateaus, and other surface features of the land are called?
landforms
200
When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart.
What is freezes?
200
Weathering changes Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is slowly?
200
This type of rock is created when wind, water, and forces of nature wear away igneous rock into smaller particles and settle in layers on the Earth's surface
SEDIMENTARY
200
The process of dropping or depositing sediment in a new location
Deposition
300
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
erosion
300
Weathering over long periods of time breaks rock into ____________ pieces. (larger or smaller)
What is smaller?
300
Erosion can change the shape of the land faster than a volcano can. True or False.
What is False?
300
This type of rock is when other rocks experience extreme heat and pressure
Metamorphic Rock
300
Define weathering
weathering is when rocks are broken down into smaller pieces by wind, water, and forces of nature
400
water, wind, and other natural forces are all forms of what?
weathering
400
Fast flowing rivers can pick up and carry rocks (far/short) distances.
What is far?
400
Water can weather rock by: A. eroding soil B. by freezing and melting
Freezing and Melting?
400
List 2 "forces of nature"
volcanoes, earthquakes (shifting plates)
400
Define erosion
erosion is when broken down pieces of rock are moved by wind and water to a new place
500
wind and water moving sediment are examples of what?
Erosion
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
Landslides are quick changes to the land. They can be caused by: A. magma and rain B. gravity and rain
What is gravity and rain?
500
True or false. The rock cycle ends when igneous and sedimentary rocks become metamorphic rocks
False. Bonus: what happens?
500
What is the difference between magma and lava?
magma is under the Earth's surface and lava is when it breaches the Earth's surface
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