Landform
Sand Dunes are mounds, hills, or ridges of windblown what?
What is sand?
What is the air that surrounds the Earth called?
What is the atmosphere?
What is the chemical formula of calcite?
What is CaCO3?
What is the rigid outer layer of Earth called?
What is the crust?
What landforms are high, uplifted areas with steep slopes called?
What are mountains?
What is a person who studies Earth/rocks called?
What is a geologist?
What is a mass of rock falling called?
What is a rock fall?
What is water stored below the Earth's surface called?
What is groundwater?
What is a sedimentary rock made of clay or silt called?
What is shale?
What is a nearly level area that has been lifted called?
What is a plateau?
What is a low area between hills or mountains is called?
What is a valley?
What are bits of dead plant and animal parts in soil called?
What is humus?
What are any remains, trace, or imprint of animal or plant life preserved in Earth's crust called?
What are fossils?
What is a deposit of soft mud in water called?
What is ooze?
What is a naturally occurring warm body of water heated from underground called?
What is a hotspring?
What is a V-shaped valley eroded by a stream or river is called?
What is a Canyon?
By what process are karst topography (dramatic landforms) are created?
What is chemical weathering?
What is a calcium carbonate deposit shaped like an icicle, hanging from a roof of a cave?
What is stalactite?
What is a rock that forms when melted rock hardens?
What is igneous rock?
What is a gently sloping shore next to a body of water washed by waves or tides called?
What is a beach?
What is a curve or loop in a river or a stream called?
What is a meander?
What is a community of organisms interacting with each other and the nonliving environment called?
What is an ecosystem?
What is a rock that forms when layers of sediments get stuck together called?
What is a sedimentary rock?
When a geologist is studying the surface that is revealed when something is cut through, that section is called?
What is a cross section?
What is to form a solid, insoluble product during a chemical reaction called?
What is precipitate?