Vocabulary
Types of Erosion
Class Activities
Pictures
Random Science INFO
100
What is: A slow moving mass of ice and snow.
A glacier
100
What happens when waves crash into sand on the beach?
Sand washes away from the beach, causing the beach to get smaller.
100
What materials worked well for the prototype? What materials did not work well?
Worked well: Popsicle sticks, tinfoil, rocks, plastic wrap, etc.
Did not work well: Marker, paper, pipe cleaners, etc.
100
What is this a picture of? What can it be used for?
The picture is soil. Soil can be used to plant flowers and crops.
100
What do you call the series of changes that most animals go through in life? (Butterflies, turtles, etc.)
Life cycle
200
What is a particle?
The smallest possible piece of something.
200
Name two types of slow moving erosion.
Possible answers:
- Water
- Wind
-Soil
- Glacier
- Weathering
200
What happens when you have water, rocks, and a sugar cube in a jar and shake them? What is made?
The rocks help break down the sugar cube and produces sediments
200
What type of erosion does this picture show? How do you know?
Water erosion because it is on the beach and the sand has been removed from the beach.
200
The sun is an example of what?
A star
300
What is a region? Give two examples.
A region is a piece of land set by boards.
Some examples: Any state, country, or continent.
300
Who or what does erosion effect?
Possible answers:
-Humans (especially farmers)
- Animals (especially farm and water animals
-Soil/the land
300
What are two ways that we can help stop erosion? (Use what we have talked about during class and what you have read.)
Possible answers:
- Cut down less trees/plan trees
- Build a wall/roof to help prevent erosion
- Use rocks, mulch, and grass
- Have a water catching system
300
What is this a picture of? What type of erosion is most likely to happen here?
A desert. Wind erosion because there is not much water or ice in the desert, just wind storms.
300
How many planets are there in our solar system? List them.
8 planets (used to be 9): Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
400
What is: Sand or small pieces of rock broken down by weathering and deposited on land or the bottom of a body of water?
Sediments
400
Name one type of fast moving erosion.
Possible answers:
-Volcano
- Tsunami
-Earthquake
400
What are the three types of erosion we did activities for in class? What were the activities?
- Waves on the beach: Water/wave erosion
- Windy paper- Wind erosion
- Hilly erosion: Soil, water, and wind erosion
400
Draw and label three different types of erosion (any kind that we have talked about. The drawings can be simple.)
Possible drawings:
-Wind
-Water
-Soil
-Glacier
-Volcano
-Tsunami
-Earthquake
400
What is the hight of a wavelength called?
Amplitude
500
What is weathering?
The breakdown of small materials into very small particles by water, air, and other natural forces.
500
What is erosion?
The gradual wearing down of something by wind, water, or other natural forces.
500
Come up with another activity that we could have done for erosion in the classroom?
Answers will vary:
- Glacier activity with melting ice to show erosion
-Water flowing table with sand (like we watched).
- Using a hair dryer to blow soil/sand around
- Created something to hold soil and crops
- ETC.
500
If sediments or particles start at the top of the picture, what is the process of them moving down to the bottom of the picture (following the stream)?
Deposition because they are being brought to a new area.
500
What is needed to be able to do work?
Energy