Landforms and Bodies of Water
The tallest landform, usually with steep rocky sides and sometimes a snow covered peak.
What are mountains?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail occur in this step of the water cycle.
What is precipitation?
Resources that can be replaced or will never run out.
What are renewable resources?
The breaking down of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
What are fossils?
A large body of freshwater surrounded by land on all sides.
What is a lake?
This is the energy source that powers the entire water cycle.
What is the sun?
When these resources are gone, they're gone forever.
What are nonrenewable resources?
Wind, water, and gravity cause sediments and rocks to move during this process.
What is erosion?
Rocks formed by magma or lava cooling and hardening.
What are igneous?
Oceans, seas, and some lakes have this kind of water.
What is saltwater?
This occurs when liquid water gets warm enough and changes into a gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
Oil, coal, and natural gas are referred to as this.
What are fossil fuels?
Sand dunes and deltas are formed during this step of the erosion process.
What is deposition?
This is what we call the process of rocks constantly changing from one type to another.
What is the rock cycle?
Surrounded by water on three sides, this landform sticks out into a body of water.
What is a peninsula?
Clouds are formed by this step of the water cycle.
What is condensation?
Human beings would not be able to survive without these.
What are natural resources?
Frost wedging is a type of weathering that occurs when water gets into cracks in rocks and does this.
What is freeze?
The name of the top layer of soil that is made up of decaying plant and animal matter.
What is humus?
The build up of sediment at the mouth of a river creates this landform.
What is a delta?
Rainwater and runoff gathering in low areas to form ponds and lakes.
What is collection?
A type of energy source that is created using the power of running water.
What is hydroelectric power?
Rust and corrosion are examples of this type of weathering.
What is chemical?
Fossils are mostly found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?