Weathering
The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The process of moving rock, sand, or soil from one place to another.
What is erosion?
The process of dropping or laying down sediment in a new place.
What is deposition?
An event where large amounts of soil suddenly move downhill.
What is a landslide?
Scientists use facts when making conclusions, they don't use what?
What is opinions?
Water freezing in cracks of rocks and breaking them apart.
What is physical weathering?
The main force that pulls rocks and soil downhill.
What is gravity?
A landform created where a river meets an ocean and drops sediment.
What is delta?
What can create barrier islands?
What is sediment deposition?
What are reasons to share scientific knowledge? (Name multiple for 5 bonus points!)
What is
Check results, explain results, help others
Plants can do what type of weathering for rocks?
What is chemical weathering?
Wind erosion can make a landform that carves deep ravens that can make long valleys. What are these landforms called?
What is canyons?
Sand being dropped by wind to form large hills.
What is sand dunes?
The landform where salt water and freshwater mix and transition into the sea?
What is an estuary?
What is something personal that can get in the way of scientific conclusions?
What is bias(es)?
The type of weathering caused by acid rain wearing away statues.
What is chemical weathering?
Large sheets of ice that scrape the ground and carry rocks with them.
What is a glacier?
This is what goes into the everglades through rivers, giving it life and fueling plants and animals?
What is flowing water?
What two landforms can rivers make?
What is valleys and deltas?
Why can scientific knowledge change?
What is making new observations and testing them can change our knowledge?
While walking into work today I noticed a drain dripping down water onto the sidewalk. Where the water was dropping there were cracks appearing in the pavement. What process could cause this to happen?
What is weathering?
If I take a pan and fill it with sand, then with a straw blow on top of the pan filled with sand, the sand will roll and flow down the pan. What is this process?
What is erosion
When ocean waves slow down, they deposit sand to form these landforms.
What are beaches?
A famous U.S. landform created by the Colorado River cutting through rock over time.
What is the Grand Canyon?
Working with others in science is important to create new...?
What is ideas?