Sedimentary Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Layers of Soil
Land Use
100
Rock that forms from materials on the Earth's surface piling up into layers.
Sedimentary rock.
100
Melted rock that reaches the earths surface is called _____?
Lava.
100
What type of rock if formed by heat and pressure?
Metamorphic rock?
100
The first layer of soil that doesn't hold very much water is called________?
Top soil.
100
Which resources can create massive damage to Earth's surface?
What are fossil fuels?
200
The breakdown of rocks caused by chemical reaction.
What is chemical weathering?
200
Where are Igneous Rocks made from cooling magma formed?
Inside the earths surface.
200
The three types of rocks are classified by...
What is "how they form?"
200
What is the best type of soil to grow things in and why?
Top Soil because of nutrients/humus/organic matter.
200
What is trying to restore the land back to its natural state called?
What is reclamation?
300
What is the first step to making a sedimentary rock?
Weathering?
300
Rocks that cool slowly from magma have BIG or SMALL crystals.
Big crystals
300
What is the second step to making a metamorphic rock?
Heat and pressure?
300
40% Clay
10% Silt
50% Sand
What is Sandy Clay?
300
What's one way farmers can reduce their impact on the land?
...
400
What is the result of weathering?
400
Igneous rock will most likely form by a ________.
Volcano.
400
What happens to the rock after heat and pressure?
It changes and forms a metamorphic rock.
400
What contributes most to soil composition?
What is climate?
400
What's one ways humans use the land + some consequences?
...
500
Double Jeopardy :P
How can sedimentary rocks become igneous rocks?
1st: Heat + Pressure -> Metamorphic Rock -> Melting -> Crystallization
2nd: Melting -> Crystallization
500
Describe the process in which igneous rocks become sedimentary rocks...
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?
500
What type of rocks can become metamorphic?
All of them (sedimentary, igenous, or metamorphic).
500
How are soils layered from top to bottom?
What is A (topsoil), B (subsoil), C (bedrock/parent material)?
500
Name two ways we can conserve or protect our land resources?
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