Vocabulary
A natural feature of Earth
What is landform?
Name the 5 landforms.
Mountain, plains, peninsula, valley, canyon
________ cause rocks to change in size but do not change into new materials.
What is physical weathering?
________ cause rocks to change into different materials and break down the Earth slowly?
What is chemical weathering?
This is the movement of weathered materials.
What is erosion?
What are the 3 causes that bring rapid changes to landforms?
What is landslides, earthquakes, and volcanoes?
the thin layer of loose, weathered material that covers most of the land surface of Earth
What is soil?
This landform may take millions of years to form.
What is mountains?
Give 4 causes of physical weathering.
What is plants, ice, water, and wind?
Name the 3 substances mentioned in our reading that can cause chemical changes in rocks?
What is oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water?
The process of weathered materials going from one place to another.
What is transport?
Loosen materials from heavy rain pulled downhill by gravity causes _____________.
What is landslides?
place on Eather's crust where magma reaches the surface
What is a volcano?
This landform is a low area between hills or mountains.
What is valley?
As it grows, its roots split and break about the soil and rocks.
What is plants?
The effect of chemical weathering happens more QUICKLY in ____ and _____ climates.
What is warm and wet climates?
The laying down of pieces of rock and soil (this process can happen slowly and other times quickly.)
What is deposition?
Eruption changes the ___________ while damaging large areas around it.
What is volcano?
the process that breaks down rock in Earth's crust into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
This landform is flat and low ground.
What is plains?
The process of _____ and _____ cracks and splits rocks over time.
What is freezing and thawing?
A substance in the rain that can break down rocks?
What is acid?
This pushes rocks and soil down.
What is gravity?
When ______ builds in faults, the Earth's crust shakes.
What is pressure?
the movement of weathered materials
This landform is created as river flow wears away the rocks, creating narrow valley with steep sides.
What is canyon?
The loose sand and gravel in ______ scrape the rocks as it hit rocks over a long period of time.
What is water/waves?
________ in the air can cause more acid in the rain.
What is pollution?
Give 5 examples of erosions.
What is water, wind, gravity, living things, and glaciers?
A ______ is a break or crack in rocks where Earth's crust can move.
What is fault?
the laying down of pieces of rock and soil
What is deposition?
This landform surrounded by water along the coast and extends into water.
What is peninsula?
The _______ can blow tiny grains of sand against a rock. These wear the rock away and weather it.
What is wind?
Rainwater mixed with ______ ________ forms weak acid in the rain.
What is carbon dioxide?
This can transport and deposit rocks of all sizes for long distances.
What is glaciers.
DAILY DOUBLE! What is the huge fault extending from north to south through much of California?
What is the San Andreas fault?