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Weathering & Erosion
Soil Properties
Rapid Changes to Earth's Surface
Human Impact on Earth's Surface
Natural Resources
100
This is another name for the Earth’s natural features?
What are landforms?
100
Name four properties of soil.
What are the ability to support plant growth, color, texture, and the ability to hold water?
100
The Earth's crust is divided into large pieces called plates.
What is the structure of the Earth's crust?
100
This is where most trash ends up.
What is a landfill?
100
Resources that exist in limited amounts or are used faster than they can be replaced in nature.
What are nonrenewable resources?
200
These are changes to Earth’s surface that result from flooding.
What are fast changes?
200
This has the ability to support plant growth, color, texture, and the ability to hold water.
What is soil with humus?
200
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or landslides can occur when this happens.
What can happen when the Earth's crust changes fast?
200
Some valuable materials are too far underground to be mined on Earth's surface.
What are some mines deep underground?
200
We have only 1% of this in our world that is not salt water or frozen.
What is drinkable water?
300
Name 3 kinds of landforms.
What are plains, plateaus, peninsula, valley, canon, mountain?
300
These are the nonliving particles in soil.
What are rock, air, and minerals?
300
Erosion, gravity, rainfall, human activity, and energy from earthquakes and volcanoes cause this.
What are four things that can cause landslides?
300
This shoots very hot water into the air.
What is a geyser?
300
Resources made from organisms that lived long ago.
What are fossil fuels?
400
This happens when Earth’s crust is slowly broken into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
400
Give three examples of organisms in soil and describe how they contribute to the formation of soil.
What are bacteria, fungi, and insects, which loosen and mix the soil and break down plant and animal remains?
400
This happens when an earthquake or eruption happens under the ocean.
What is how a tsunami starts?
400
This is the process of restoring land after it has been used.
What is land reclamation?
400
Resources that can be replaced.
What are renewable resources?
500
This chemical process cause rocks to change into different materials and break down.
What is chemical weathering?
500
State how soil is important to people and animals.
What is soil provides nutrients for plants to grow, people and animals eat plants that grow in soil?
500
The area where the most damage occurs in an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
500
Glass, paper, and aluminum all have this done.
What are products that can be recycled?
500
This is an act to protect land by making it a park.
What is preservation.