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Landforms
Fossils/Fossil Fuels/Sedimentary Rock
Slow Changes
Rapid Changes
Soil
100
A natural physical feature on the Earth's surface.
What is a landform
100
The left over remains of a plant or animal that give clues to the environment?
What is a fossil
100
Name the three slow changes that affect Earth's surface
What is Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
100
Name the three rapid changes that affect Earth surface
What is Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and landslides
100
What are the four types of soil?
What is silt, loam, clay, and sand
200
A triangular landform caused by deposition.
What is a Delta?
200
Coal, Oil, and natural gas are examples of?
What is a fossil fuel
200
The process by rock is broken down into smaller pieces
What is weathering
200
A shaking movement of the ground caused by a sudden shift in the Earth's crust
What is an earthquake
200
What type of soil retains the least amount of water?
What is sand
300
A deep cut between cliffs of a rock
What is a canyon?
300
Fossils show
What is the history of the organism and gives clues to the past
300
The process by which weathered rock (sediment) is carried away by wind, water, or ice?
What is erosion
300
Opening in the Earth's surface through which molten rock, ash, and gases are erupted.
What is a volcano
300
A mixture of Humus (dead plant and animal matter,) and sediments from weathered rock
What is soil
400
A large deposit of sand that is moved by wind.
What is a Sand dune?
400
Describe the processes that led to the formation of sedimentary rock?
Wind water and ice break rock into tiny pieces, sediments are carried away by wind, water, or ice and they are deposited at the bottom of swamps, lakes, and ocean floors, as the sediment layers pile up they are pressed down, heat and pressure turn sediment layers into sediment rocks.
400
The process by which sediment is dropped?
What is deposition
400
Rock, soil, and debris rapidly fall down a slope
What is a landslide
400
Describe the texture of the four types of soil?
What is gritty, silky and smooth, and sticky, all three textures
500
Forces that build up and tear down land?
What is constructive and destructive forces.
500
Describe the process that led to the formation of Fossil Fuels?
What is What is Many years ago the Earth was covered with swampy forest and plants, as they plants died their remains were collected in the swamp, swamps were covered with soil and sediment trapping the energy stored in the dead plant material, heat and pressure turns the remains into fossil fuels.
500
The process in which water enters a crack, freezing and thawing repeatedly, causing the rock to break apart?
What is ice wedging?
500
Describe the effects of rapid changes to the Earth's Surface after a Volcano, Earthquake, and a Landslide
What is Volcano--destroys forest, cities, and civilizations Earthquake--change landscape(split land) Landslide--change the course of rivers, block roadways Volcano-new land and rich soil
500
What is the best type of soil that will sustain life?
What is Loam