Chapter 7 Vocab
This is a solid substance that occurs in nature
What is a mineral?
This is an area of higher land.
What is a mountain?
This is type of rock that forms when when heat and pressure changes them.
What are metamorphic rocks?
This is what we call the shape of landforms in an area.
What is topography?
What is how different rocks change into other kinds?
The rock cycle.
What is solid substance made of minerals?
What is a rock/stone?
This is a large block of moving ice.
What is a glacier?
This is the breaking down of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
These are the large pieces of Earth's crust that move around.
What are plates?
This is how mountains are formed.
When one land plate crashes into another.
This is a layer in the soil.
What is a horizon?
This is the shaking of Earth's surface.
What is an earthquake?
This is a rock made when layers of sediment are pressed together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
These are the four layers of the Earth.
What are the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust?
Where are most volcanoes found?
They are found in the ring of fire.
This is the largest particle of sediment.
What is sand?
These are natural features on the Earth's surface.
What are landforms?
These are rocks that form when rock is melted and cooled.
What are igneous rocks?
This is how a delta forms.
When a river flows into the ocean or a sea, it slows down and the sediment becomes deposited in the shape of a triangle.
How is weathering different from erosion?
Weathering is breaking the rocks into smaller pieces and erosion is moving those pieces somewhere else.
These are pieces of rock that have been broken down and moved.
What is sediment?
This is the dropping of bit of rock and soil.
What is deposition?
Explain the difference between a rock and mineral.
There are thousands of types of minerals. They are classified by their physical properties like hardness, color, streak test, and luster.
Rocks are made of one or more minerals. There are three types and they are classified by how they form.
These are three types of volcanoes.
What are composite, shield, and cinder cone?
These are the different layers of soil.
Bedrock is on the bottom and is solid rock. Topsoil is the soil on the top that contains lots of humus. Subsoil is in the middle and contains little humus, but many weathered rocks.