Stone Cold Facts
Rocks formed from cooled lava and magma
What is igneous rock?
The "puzzle pieces" that cause land to move and change over time
What are tectonic plates?
The number of things living in a particular area
What is population?
Any type of water that falls from clouds to the Earth
What is precipitation?
Ms. Schroeder's favorite color, which is often associated with calmness and the sky
What is blue?
The series of processes that occur on Earth's surface and in the crust and mantle that slowly change rocks from one kind to another
What is the rock cycle?
What is an index fossil?
Coal, Oil, Gas, Minerals, Gold, Uranium
What is nonrenewable resource?
The boundary between two different air masses
What is a front?
Ms. Schroeder's job throughout college, the company is notable for having a mermaid as a logo
What is Starbuck's barista?
Much like the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly, when heat and pressure are applied to this rock, it changes into something completely different
What is metamorphic rock?
These kinds of changes occur slowly over time, the opposite of catastrophic
What is gradual?
This water is crammed in the tiny gaps between rocks, soil, and sediments, humans use 53 billion gallons of this everyday
What is groundwater?
The type of air mass would form off of the coast of Southern California
What is maritime tropical?
Ms. Schroeder's favorite fictional creature, known to have a bloody good time
What is a vampire?
Sediment becomes this through a series of processes such as weather, erosion, transportation, deposition, compaction, and cementation
What is sedimentary rock?
First proposed by Alfred Wegener, it is the idea that all continents were once fused together and have since "drifted" apart
What is continental drift?
Burning of fossil fuels releases this gas into the atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
This kind of front causes hot air to rise at a very steep angle to form large storm clouds
What is a cold front?
Ms. Schroeder's birthday month, known to bring May flowers
What is April?
These two energy sources drive the rock cycle
What is the sun and the Earth's interior?
Scientists can tell an asteroid impact happened a long time ago by observing a layer of this rare metal in the fossil record
What is iridium?
It is the mining of lithium and the production of this part of an electric car that creates more pollution than the car will emit throughout its entire lifetime
What is the battery?
This type of front indicates that stormy weather will be around for days
What is a stationary front?
A message from Ms. Schroeder to you all in alphabetic code
9,12,12 13,9,19,19 25,15,21
What is I'll Miss You <3