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100

A rock that is formed from weathering, erosion, and deposition of sediments over a long periods of time.

What is sedimentary rock?

100

What are the four primary soils that we study? (S.C.L.S)

What are sand, clay, loam and silt?

100

What are the agents of erosion?

What are wind, water, and ice?

100

A landform that is a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, and ashes expelled. 

What is a volcano?

100

What agent of erosion and processes create a delta?

What are water erosion and deposition?

200

The breaking down of rocks.

What is weathering?

200

The diameter of a grain of a sediment The size of a soil sediment.

What is particle size?

200

Small pieces of broken down, weathered rock that are eroded by wind water and ice.

What is sediment?

200

To send out lava, rocks, and ash in a sudden explosion.

What is erupt?

200

The process or result of slowly breaking down by natural processes. 

What is decay or decompose?

300

When layers of sediments stack on top of each other over time.

What is deposition?

300

A property of soil that describes it's ability to hold water.

What is retain?

300

What agent of erosion and process create a sand dune?

What is the agent of erosion wind?

What is the process of erosion?

300

A sudden violent shaking of the ground, typically causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust.

What is earthquake?

300

The protection of things found in nature. 

What is conservation?

400

When water, wind and ice transport and wear away sediments.

What is erosion?

400

A property that describes how something feels.

What is Texture?

400

What agent of erosion and processes create a canyon?

What agent of erosion is water?


What processes are weathering and erosion?

400

A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff slide.

What is a landslide?

400

Resources that are capable of being replaced by nature in a short period of time.

What are renewable resources?

500

What are the final two stages in the sedimentary rock cycle.  One stage involves heat, time and pressure and sediments being squeezed together and the other stage involves the sediments being cemented together.

What is compaction?

What is cementation?


500

What soil has a small particles sizes and retains lots of water?

What is clay?

500

How is U- Shaped valley created?

What is erosion by a glacier?

500

What most likely cause this rapid change? rapid change to the Earth's surface.

What is a volcano?

500

The process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.

What is recycling?