Weathering
Erosion
Weather
Climate
Miscellaneous
100
What is weathering?
Rock is broken into smaller pieces.
100
What natural agent of change forms U shaped valleys?
Glaciers.
100
What is weather?
The conditions outside RIGHT NOW!
Or today.
Or tomorrow.
Or a week from now.
Short period of time.
100
What is climate?
Average weather conditions for
a region year after year.
100
what is weathering?
Weathering is the process that breaks down rock and other substances.
200
What hint words indicate weathering?
Breaking, breaking down, wearing down, etc.
200
How do deltas form?
A river breaks down land and then carries it toward the ocean.
200
What is wind?
Air that is moving.
200
What is precipitation?
Rain, snow, sleet, hail falling from clouds.
200
What are the two types of weathering?
The two types of weathering are chemical and mechanical weathering.
300
How does freezing and thawing break a rock?
When ice melts, water seeps in deeper into the cracks, and freezes again. With repeated freezing and thawing the cracks in a rock expand slowly and then the rock breaks off.
300
What hint words can we use for erosion?
Moved, carried away, transported, traveled.
300
How often do people usually check the weather?
Daily.
Everyday will also be accepted.
Every hour is fine too.
Every minutes is too much. C'mon.
300
How do you know this map is a climate map?
This map is a climate map because its talking about the annual temperature in Texas over 30 years.
300
What is this called? Does it tell you about the weather or the climate of a place?
This is a weather forecast. It is letting you know what the weather will be in the next few days.
400
What is the natural agent of change that forms sand dunes by weathering mountains and moving the broken down sediment to a new location?
Wind!
400
Which of these is NOT erosion?
A. Sand is carried away by the ocean.
B. The bottom of a mushroom rock travels.
C. Sand is dropped off between a river and the ocean.
C. Sand is dropped off between a river and the ocean.
400
What conditions outside are a part of both weather and climate?
Temperature and precipitation.
400
True or false: A map of annual precipitation is a climate map.
TRUE. Annual data is gathered over many, many years.
400
When a delta forms, rivers drop off rocks and sediment they carry when they get to the ocean which creates new land where the river and the ocean meet. Why do rivers deposit these sediments here?
Rivers slow down when they crash into the slow water of the ocean.
500
Stephon puts rocks in a jar and shakes them violently. The rocks break apart. Tiny pieces of rock, the size of grains of sand form at the bottom of the jar. What process is Stephon demonstrating?
Weathering!
Deposition will also be accepted as an answer.
500
Explain the difference between weathering and erosion.
Weathering breaks rocks into tiny pieces. Erosion moves them from one place to another.
500
Which of these is not used to measure weather?
A. Thermometer.
B. An anemometer.
C. Triple beam balance.
D. A barometer.
Triple beam balance. It is used to measure mass.
500
Which of these 2 statements is about climate?
A. This has been the hottest January in New Caney history to date.
B. The daily conditions outside have been changing a lot.
A. This has been the hottest January in New Caney history to date.
500
Mister Mondéjar pours a glass of water into a container with sand in it. One side of the container is higher than the other side. The water flows down to the lower end. The water carries sand from the top where the water is being poured down to the lower end. What is being demonstrated?
The way rivers erode land and deposit it somewhere else.
Any answer including rivers causing weathering, erosion, and deposition will be accepted.