Earth Materials

The continuous movement of carbon among

the abiotic environment and living things

• Carbon Cycle

• Nitrogen Cycle

• Energy

• Water Cycle

The continual movement of nitrogen from the air to the soil, into living things, and back into the air

• Water Cycle

• Energy

• Nitrogen Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

Rock formed when lava or magma cools and solidifies. Lava cools quickly and forms rocks with small crystals, while magma cools more slowly and forms rocks with larger crystals.

• Sedimentary Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Igneous Rock

• Earth Systems

A single, self-contained living thing

• Matter

• Erosion

• Sediment

• Organism

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

• Sediment

• Nutrient Cycle

• Weathering

• Matter

Rocks formed when particles of

other rocks are deposited in layers and

are compacted (crushed together), and

cemented (binding of the sediments).

• Sedimentary Rock

• Nutrient Cycle

• Metamorphic Rock

• Igneous Rock

The ability of a system to do work. Energy is required for changes to happen within a system.

• Sediment

• Energy

• Weathering

• Erosion

The process of when rocks and sediment are picked up and moved to another place by ice, water, wind, or gravity.

• Rock Cycle

• Erosion

• Sediment

• Weathering

The continual formation of igneous rock (cooled magma), sedimentary rock (cemented and sediments), and metamorphic rock (rocks changed from heat and pressure), and the change from one rock type to another

• Weathering

• Earth Systems

• Rock Cycle

• Carbon-Oxygen Cycle

The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces by physical and chemical processes at the Earth's surface

• Erosion

• Sediment

• Rock Cycle

• Weathering