What happened before?
Fossils
Fossils
To degrade or break down in to smaller parts; to rot
What is decay?
Small pieces of broken down rock
What is sediment?
Created in swampy areas over millions of years
What is coal?
What is created in layers with the help of heat and pressure?
What is sedimentary rock?
Created by sand deposition
What is a sand dune?
A preserved part or trace of an animal or plant that lived in the past
What is a fossil?
The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
Nonrenewable resource made from marine animals;
(Ex. fuel)
What is oil?
The waste and remains of plants and animals
What is organic matter?
Created by river cutting rock
What is a canyon?
A mark or depression made by pressure
What is imprint?
The movement of sediments from one place to another
What is erosion?
Nonrenewable resources made from organisms
What are fossil fuels?
A force of pushing on other objects
What is pressure?
What is a delta?
A limited representation of something that can help us understand its structure or how it works
What is a model?
Sediments dropped off in a new place
What is deposition?
Flammable resource with no definite shape or form
What is natural gas?
The action of preserving and not wasting
What is conservation?
Formed by a glacier
What is a U- Shaped valley?
Where can you find the oldest layer of rock?
What is layer 1?
What are the 4 agents of erosion
What are wind, water, ice, & gravity?
The process before deposition?
What is erosion
Renewable resource moved in a cycle by changing states using energy from the sun
What is water?
feature on the surface of the Earth caused by the WED process
What are landforms?