This type of rock is formed from pressure being placed on layers of sediment
What is Sedimentary Rock?
100
This is the process of rocks or sediments being carried by wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
100
A puddle drying in the sun is an example of which part of the water cycle?
What is evaporation?
100
This is what you call magma that reaches the earth's surface.
What is lava?
100
This is the theory that the Earth's outer layer (the crust) is made up of large, moving pieces, called plates.
What is Plate Tectonics?
200
This type of rock is formed from lava or magma heating and then cooling.
What is Igneous Rock?
200
This is the process of breaking down and wearing away of rocks by wind, water, or ice.
What is weathering?
200
This is the main source of energy for the water cycle.
What is the sun?
200
This is an opening in the earth's crust which allows molten rock, ash, and gas to escape.
What is a volcano?
200
These are natural features found on the Earth's surface
(mountains, valleys, hills, canyons)
What are landforms?
300
This type of rock is created by extreme heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
300
This is the process by which wind or water drops sediment in a new location.
What is deposition?
300
After it rains, water that soaks into the land is called this.
What is groundwater?
300
This is shaking or vibrating of the Earth caused by tectonic plates moving or bumping into each other.
What is an Earthquake?
300
This is an impression that is formed within layers of sedimentary rock. They can be from dead animals or plants.
What are fossils?
400
What is a solid object found in nature that rocks are made up of?
What is a mineral?
400
Describe how a glacier can cause erosion and create a new landform.
A glacier can cut out mountains as it moves, leaving behind valleys filled with water from the melting glacier.
400
The change from a gas (water vapor) to a liquid occurs in which part of the water cycle?
What is condensation?
400
This is where an earthquake usually occurs.
(Hint: f _ _ _ _)
What is a fault?
400
Explain how finding fossils has helped scientists learn about the earth's past.
What is they show the different plants and animals that lived here. They show the different sizes of the plants and animals. They show where plants and animals once lived.
500
What is a hard non-living thing made of minerals?
What is a rock?
500
This is a slow moving, frozen block of ice and snow.
What is a glacier?
500
Describe what happens to a raindrop as it falls from the sky.
Use all the stages of the water cycle in your description.
What is (answers will vary) but must have precipitation, runoff, groundwater, evaporation, condensation.
500
When a volcano erupts or an earthquake happens, does the surface of the earth change quickly or slowly?
What is quickly?
500
This type of rock is most commonly found all around us.