WED
______ breaks, ______ takes, _______ drops (use hand motions when answering)
What is Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition)
These are the small bits of rock, shells, and remains of living things that make up sedimentary rock.
What is Sediment?
Fossil fuels are considered this type of resource because they take millions of years to form and cannot be replaced quickly. (Renewable or Non-Renewable)
What is Non-renewable?
These hills of sand are formed and moved by the wind.
What are Sand Dunes?
The name for a resource/energy that "never runs out" and can be replaced over and over again in our lifetimes.
What is renewable energy?
This happens when wind or water drops sediment in a new location, often building up the land
What is Deposition?
This process happens when layers of sediment are pressed or "squeezed" together by the weight of layers above them
What is Compaction?
These three things are required to turn dead organisms into fossil fuels over millions of years.
What are Pressure, Heat, and Time?
This fan-shaped landform is created by deposition at the mouth of a river.
What is a Delta?
This type of energy uses large "farms" of mirrors or panels to capture light from the sun.
What is Solar Energy?
This process breaks down rocks into smaller pieces called sediment.
What is weathering?
This is the "gluing" phase where minerals fill in the gaps between sediments and harden.
What is Cementation?
This fossil fuel began as ancient plants in swampy areas.
What is Coal?
This V-shaped landform is carved out by the constant "cut and run" action of moving river water.
What is a Canyon?
This energy uses large turbines that spin and move to generate electricity.
What is wind?
This process acts like a delivery truck, moving weathered rock from one place to another.
What is Erosion?
The only kind of rock that can contain Fossil Fuels.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
Oil and Natural Gas primarily formed from the remains of these tiny organisms found in the ocean.
What is Plankton or Microscopic Marine Organisms?
These are landforms that are formed by glaciers and are wide and flat.
What are U-shaped Valleys?
This energy resource uses the movement of water, often at a large dam, to spin turbines and create electricity.
What is Hydroelectric energy?
List the three most common agents (causes) of W.E.D.
(Agents of Change)
What are Wind, Water, and Ice?
The steps of forming a sedimentary rock.
Put these in the correct order: Erosion, Cementation, Weathering, Deposition, Compaction.
hese two processes (similar to rock formation) are necessary to bury organic matter deep enough to turn into fuel.
What are Deposition and Compaction?
These are the processes that form ALL landforms.
What is Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition?
While fossil fuels are buried deep underground, these two renewable resources rely on the weather happening in the atmosphere.
What is wind and solar energy?