A natural feature of earth such as a mountain or plateau
What is a landform?
100
Name two causes of erosion.
What are gravity, wind, water, and ice?
100
The two types of natural resources
What are renewable and nonrenewable?
200
Rock that forms from melted rock
What is igneous rock?
200
True or False: All minerals have crystals that are the same shape.
What is False?
200
The outer surface of Earth is made up of this.
What is rock?
200
Running water can carve grooves in the Earth's surface that can become
What is valleys or canyons?
200
Name 3 renewable resources.
What are plants, animals, oxygen, water, sun, and wind?
300
The term for lava when it is inside the volcano
What is magma?
300
The name of the hardness scale
What is Moh's?
300
Two types of weathering
What are chemical and physical?
300
Huge sheets of ice that erode landforms
What are glaciers?
300
Name 3 types of nonrenewable resources.
What are ores, oil, coal, gas?
400
Soil, shells, bits of rock, and dead plant and animal matter
What is sediment?
400
Name 3 properties of mineral.
What are color, luster, hardness, streak, cleavage, crystal shape?
400
3 causes of physical weathering
What are water, ice, living things, temperature changes?
400
When erosion happens underground, it can cause a
What is a sinkhole?
400
These are made from organisms that lived long ago,
What are fossil fuels?
500
Metamorphic rock is formed by this
What is heat and pressure?
500
The hardest and the softest mineral
What are diamond and talc?
500
This forms when rainwater mixes with carbon dioxide in the air
What is acid rain?
500
The laying down of pieces of rock
What is deposition?
500
Name 3 ways to conserve resources.
What are walk/ride a bike, drink from a reusable container, recycle materials, shut lights off when not using them, shut water off while brushing teeth, etc.?