Earth Structures (BI.6) Vocabulary

The process of moving rocks and soil by water, wind, ice, and gravity.

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Metamorphic Rock

• Oil

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

formed from the remains of once living things; includes oil, natural gas and coal.

• Fossil Fuel

• erosion

• weathering

• renweable resource

A resource that can only be replenished over millions of years.

• nonrenewable resource

• renewable resource

• rain

• wind

a resource that is replaced, or restored, as it is used by natural processes; wind, water, sun.

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

• coal

• fossil fuel

Relatively hard, naturally formed mineral or petrified matter.

• rock

• mineral

• erosion

• oil

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The breaking down of rocks on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.

• weathering

• erosion

• sedimentary rock

• renewable resource

a combustible black or dark brown rock consisting mainly of carbonized plant matter.

• coal

• oil

• renewable resource

• igneous rock

A type of rock formed from melted rock that cools and hardens.

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• mineral

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Formed by high temperature & high pressure deep inside the Earth.

• metamorphic rock

• igneous rock

• sedimentary rock

• mineral

A naturally occurring inorganic solid with a distinct chemical & crystalline structure.

• mineral

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock