Vocabulary
Anything living or that used to be alive.
Organic material?
A fossil fuel that was originally formed in swampy areas.
What is coal?
The preserved remains or traces of living things.
What is Fossils?
These landforms are created by the deposition of sediment that was carried by the wind and then dropped.
What are sand dunes?
This occurs when tectonic plates get caught or hung up on each other; built up energy is suddenly released.
What is an earthquake?
The movement of sediments by wind, water, ice.
What is Erosion?
Fossil fuels that are mined or pumped on land AND underwater.
What is gas and oil?
This fossil fuel contains more energy and burns more cleanly when pressure and heat increase.
What is Coal
These landforms are created at the mouths of rivers, where they empty into the ocean.
What are Deltas?
This event happens when large amounts of soil, dirt, rock, etc. are weighed down by a lot of rain.
What is a landslide?
The process of the breaking rock into small pieces, by wind, water, ice.
What is Weathering?
The process of dropping sediment which eventually created sedimentary rock and new landforms.
What is deposition?
Natural land features on Earth's surface, These change over long periods of time because of water, wind, and ice.
What are landforms?
The words "scraping", "grinding", "cracking", tumbling", and "breaking" all refer to this process.
What is Weathering?
This landform is created when plates push into each other and the crust becomes buckled.
What are mountains?
Rock created over millions of years by the layering of sediments.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
This is done when flowing water, wind, or ice carries sediment to a new location.
What is Erosion?
A Landform that is carved over millions of years by a river which weathers and erodes it.
What is a canyon?
We have found these clues which tell us how earth's surface has changed over the millennia.
What are fossils?
When a river carves out rock over millions of years, it forms this landform.
What is V-shaped valley?
A landform caused by a glacier crushing rock and moving it down a slope.
What is a U-shaped valley?
An area at the edges of the Pacific plate where many earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?
This fossil fuel is often found with oil. It floats to the top since it is less dense than oil.
What is natural gas?
Because weathering, erosion, and deposition form new rock, these processes can be considered a ________________.
What is a cycle?