Vocab 1
All the living and nonliving things in a particular place
What is environment
A large, flat area of land
What is a plain
The word that best describes the lava in a cone volcano
What is thick
The remains of a plant or animal that lived a very, very long time ago
What is a fossil
A piece of land surrounded by water
What is an island
A habitat covered in water and filled with many trees
What is a swamp
How the prehistoric animals died at Ashfall Fossil Bed
What is volcanic ash
A pretend version of something that scientists use when the real thing is too big, small, or complicated to work with
What is a model
Mountains in a row or a line
What is a mountain range
Very small pieces of rock
What is sediment
Dry, treeless, sandy maybe with cacti
What is a desert
The area where volcanos are likely to erupt
What is the Ring of Fire
Information that can be used to support or reject an idea
What is evidence
A large, slow-moving mass of ice
What is a glacier
A type of rock formed when sediments settle and then press together over long periods of time
What is sedimentary rock
Raised, rounded area of land
What is a hill
The name of someone who studies volcanos
What is a volcanologist
Underwater
What is aquatic
Two types of weathering
A natural process where plant roots grow into tiny cracks in rocks and, as they get bigger, force the cracks to get wider, eventually breaking the rock apart.
What is root wedging
Low area of land between hills or mountains
What is a valley
The kind of volcano that is least likely to explode
What is a shield or dome volcano
A deep, narrow valley with steep sides formed over a long period of time by moving water
What is a canyon
The process of sediment falling and settling on a surface...
Deposition