Rocks
What are the rock types?
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
What comes after evaporation in the water cycle?
Condensation
True or false? the moons gravitational pull causes tides.
True
What is erosion?
When rocks are broken down by natural forces.
What are the 4 cloud types?
Cirrus, cumulus, stratus, nimbus.
What are igneous rocks made from?
Magma
What is runoff?
When there is more water than the land can absorb.
How many moons does Jupiter have?
95 moons
What causes earthquakes?
When 2 tectonic plates rub against or crash into each other.
What is humus?
Dark organic material that forms when living things decay.
What kind of rock is limestone?
Sedimentary
What's a watershed?
An area that channels rainfall into bodies of water.
What is an inner planet?
A planet whose orbit is in an asteroid belt, the four closest planets to the sun.
What is weathering?
The wearing down of rocks while they are in place.
What are stratus clouds?
Stretched out, flat clouds that form in low altitudes. Fog is an example of a stratus cloud.
What is an example of an igneous rock
Basalt, obsidian, granite, diorite
What determines water quality?
temperature, clarity, conductivity, pH, alkalinity, chlorine, hardness, and dissolved oxygen
True or False. A rotation is an object orbiting around another object
False, it is an object orbiting around its own axis.
What is parent material?
The origin for soil development.
What is barometric pressure?
The pressure formed by the weight of the atmosphere.
What is a step in the rock cycle?
Compaction, cooling, weathering/erosion, melting, deformation
What is a wetland?
A place where the land is covered by water.
What is the difference between an asteroid and a comet?
Comets are made out of ice and dust while comets are made of rock.
What are some soil types that don't have the word soil at the end?
Clay, silt, chalk, sand, compost, loam
What is a solar eclipse and how often do full ones they happen?
When the moon comes between the earth and the sun. They fully occur every 2 years.