Landforms
What is the highest landform on Earth's surface?
Mountains
This process happens when wind, water, ice, or plant roots cause rock to break into smaller pieces.
Weathering
How many main types of rock are there?
Three
About how long does it take the moon to orbit one time around the Earth?
About one month (28 days)
What is the landform that is a deep, narrow area surrounded by a mountain's steep sides?
Canyon
What process moves weathered particles? *Hint: these particles are moved by water, wind, and ice carrying them from the place where they were weathered.
Erosion
What type of rock forms when molten material beneath Earth's surface rises and cools?
Igneous
Does the moon make it's own light?
No, it is reflected from the sun.
What is one landform that is common along the edges of Earth's plates?
Mountains or volcanoes
What is the process in which particles settle in new locations?
Deposition
Heat and/or pressure can cause what type of rock to form?
Metamorphic
What is the phase of the moon called where there is NO reflected light?
New Moon
Rock
What process called that causes particles to build up, sometimes producing new landforms?
Deposition
This type of rock forms from particles that settle to form layers.
Sedimentary
Is the moon larger or smaller than the sun?
MUCH smaller!
Earthquakes and volcanoes occur along cracks in the Earth's crusts. What are these cracks called?
Faults
List two ways that causes erosion to occur.
Marble is what type of rock? Hint: marble is made when limestone or chalk is heated and squeezed.
Metamorphic
Why does the moon appear to be changing shape in the night sky over the course of a month?
The PHASES of the moon cause it to appear to change shape, as the part of it that is lit up by the sun as it orbits the Earth.