Breaking it Down
This is the breakdown of rock on Earth's surface.
What is weathering?
Fill in the blank: Erosion occurs when rock or sediment is ____________ from one place to another.
What is moved?
This is the vocabulary term for when sediment and rock is dropped off in a new location.
What is deposition?
What do rocks moved by ocean or river water look like? (Two answer required)
What is rounded or smooth?
Florida is mostly made of this type of rock.
What is limestone?
This type of weathering occurs when a rock breaks, but is still chemically the same as it was before it broke.
What is physical weathering or mechanical weathering?
Fill in the blank: The faster river water moves, the _________ sediment that gets eroded.
What is more?
This is a mound of sand created by deposition.
What is a dune?
What type of weathering creates sinkholes?
What is chemical weathering?
These are the low-lying wetlands in South Florida.
What is the Everglades?
This is another word for physical weathering.
What is mechanical weathering?
Two acceptable answers:
What is valleys or What is U-shaped valleys?
This is an area of flat land created when sediments are deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
What vocabulary term changes rock's appearance?
What is weathering?
Florida's largest lake, is this lake, formed because it was a natural low-lying area that filled with water 6,000 years ago.
What is Lake Okeechobee?
This type of weathering occurs when a rock is broken down and it is now chemically different than it was before.
What is chemical weathering?
Name one agent of erosion:
Acceptable answers: other answers may be accepted.
What is wind?
What is water? (ocean, rivers, rain, etc.)
What are glaciers?
What is gravity?
This is a deposit of sediment that originates in mountains and is transported by rivers.
What is an alluvial fan?
Ice/frost wedging is an agent of __________ weathering.
What is physical or mechanical weathering?
Acceptable answers:
What are dunes?
What are beaches?
What are marshes?
What are swamps?
We modeled this agent of weathering in our sugar shake lab.
Two acceptable responses:
What is gravity or what is a rock fall?
In combination with chemical weathering, this is the kind of erosion that creates sinkholes.
What is karst erosion?
Deltas, alluvial fans, and sand dunes are all created by _____________.
What is deposition?
The faster water is moving along a river, the __________ sediment that is eroded.
What is more?
5 million years ago, much of Florida - including where we live - was _______________.
What is under water?