Name the four types of sediments from smallest to largest.
What is clay, silt, sand, and gravel
200
How do glaciers cause erosion?
What is by glacial plucking and glacial abrasion.
200
How long does it take rocks to form?
What is millions of years
200
Finish this statement... The rock cycle has no _____.
What is end
200
What is erosion caused by?
What is wind and/or water
200
What is soil made of?
What is humus, clay, silt, sand, and small pebbles.
300
What is glacial plucking?
What is glaciers loosen rock and the rock is frozen in the bottom of the glacier.
300
What are two igneous rocks?
What is granite, obsidian, basalt, or scoria
300
What are two sedimentary rocks?
What is limestone, conglomerate, sandstone, or shale?
300
Name the two types of weathering and give an example of each.
What is physical and chemical with example
300
What creates sediments
What is weathering
400
What is glacial abrasion?
What is glaciers slide across rock causing the rock to be scratched and smoothed by rocks stuck in the bottom of the glacier.
400
What are two metamorphic rocks?
What is meta-conglomerate, slate, quartzite, or marble.
400
How do igneous rocks form and where are they formed?
What is rock that melts from great heat turning into magma which cools and hardens into igneous rock. They are formed inside the Earth from magma or when a volcano erupts.
400
What type of weathering involves a reaction
What is chemical weathering
400
Which sediment has a mass of 5 grams
What is clay
500
Volcanoes can be ___________ or ___________. Explain both.
What is constructive or destructive. Volcanoes are constructive by forming new rocks or destructive by killing plant life and covering existing rocks.
500
How do metamorphic rocks form and where are they formed?
What is when rock under goes great pressure and heat to form metamorphic rock. They are formed underground, deep inside the Earth's crust.
500
How do sedimentary rocks form and where are they formed?
What is rock is weathered and eroded into sediments. The sediments are layered, under pressure, and harden into sedimentary rock. They are formed in water, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.
500
What kind of weathering shaped the Grand Canyon
What is Physical weathering
500
What happens when put sediments in water and let them sit