Miscellaneous 1
WED
Rock Cycle
Speed
Miscellaneous 2
100
Physical Weathering or Chemical Weathering:
Ice wedging apart a rock through freezing and thawing
Physical weathering
100
When rock fragments are picked up and moved from one location to another by things like water or wind
erosion
100
What is this an image of:
The rock cycle
100
Would a canyon be a fast or slow forming landform?
Slow
100
What do you think created this landform?
river (or water)
200
Which rock type is most likely to contain fossils?
Sedimentary rocks
200
Physically or chemically breaking down rocks on earth's surface
weathering
200
This type of rock forms from cooling magma and lava
Igneous
200
A cave forming: fast or slow process
Slow
200
What do you think created this landform?
Wind
300
Physical Weathering or Chemical Weathering:
Stalactites forming in a cave?
Chemical weathering
300
Is this weathering, erosion, or deposition?
Blowing sand comes to rest, forming a sand dune.
Deposition
300
This type of rock forms from extreme heat and pressure. Gneiss is an example
metamorphic
300
An earthquake occurring: fast or slow process
Fast
300
What do you think created this landform?
Glaciers
400
Rust forming on rocks, plants creating acids that dissolve rock, and minerals dissolving in rainwater are all examples of what?
Chemical weathering
400
What is the main difference between weathering and erosion?
Weathering breaks down rocks
erosion moves materials
400
The making and moving of sediments.
weathering and erosion
400
The badlands were formed slowly or quickly?
Slowly
400
True or False: All types of rocks can transform into all types of rocks.
True
500
Name the type of rock from the examples: granite, obsidian, basalt
Igneous
500
The breakdown of rocks by living organisms is called?
Biological weathering
500
This type of rock forms when sediments are compacted and cemented together
Sedimentary
500
Would a rock slide be a fast or slow process
Fast
500
This process causes shale to turn into slate.
Metamorphism