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Heating and pressing
below the other rock layers
Weathering and erosion can change sedimentary rock into ______________.
sediment
Which component of soil would hold the most water after a rainstorm?
What is a sedimentary rock?
contains small grains of sand in different layers
What kind of rock forms when lava has cooled?
Igneous rock
Is wind erosion a slow or fast process that changes Earth's surface?
slow
Fossils of ocean animals in the Grand Canyon is evidence that....
the Grand Canyon was once covered by an ocean
What is deposition?
process in which sediment, soil, and rocks is deposited
What type of land form would form at a converging continental tectonic plate boundary?
uplifted mountain
Earthquake vibrations are detected, measured, and recorded by a _____________.
seismograph
Describe the subduction zone when two plates collide.
when one plate goes under the other plate
After a rainstorm, a big pile of rocks blocks part of a mountain road. What do you think caused this?
landslide
Where are volcanoes most likely to form?
Where tectonic plates meet other plates
Describe a converging plate boundary
when two tectonic plates collide
Describe a diverging plate boundary
when two tectonic plates separate
when two tectonic plates slide past each other
Imagine you go to the beach on vacation, and your favorite beach contains big rocks that are surrounded by water. You come back to the same spot several years later, and the bottom of the rocks have decreased in size. Write a CLAIM as to what happened to the rocks.
The water weathered the rocks over the years
Imagine you go to the beach on vacation, and your favorite beach contains big rocks that are surrounded by water. You come back to the same spot several years later, and the bottom of the rocks have decreased in size. What EVIDENCE do you have that the rocks weathered away over time.
The rocks were larger in the before picture. The rocks are in water. The rocks are most weathered at the bottom.
Imagine you go to the beach on vacation, and your favorite beach contains big rocks that are surrounded by water. You come back to the same spot several years later, and the bottom of the rocks have decreased in size. CLAIM: weathering has occurred. EVIDENCE: the rocks are in water, and the base is most weathered. What is your reasoning?
Based on this evidence, we can conclude that weathering caused the rocks to change over the years. In the before picture, the rocks were larger and wider at the bottom. The waves coming and going on the beach wore the rock down on the bottom of the rock. The rock at the top does not appear to be any different and was not impacted by the water.