Earth Science

Students were tasked with making a model of how natural forces can change the surface

features of Earth. They make a pile of sand in front of an electric fan and turn it on. This model best represents which of the following changes to the surface of Earth?

• The formation of a delta at the mouth of a river.

• The building of a mountain on the edge of a continent.

• The movement of dunes caused by the blowing wind.

• The creation of a canyon by flowing water.

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This is a natural solid that is made of one or more minerals.

• Mineral

• Fossil

• Rock

• Sediment

The substance that is melted rock below the ground is called what?

• Magma

• Sediment

• Gas

• Water

What are the particles of weathered rock called?

• Sediments

• Fossils

• Rocks

• Minerals

This is the type of rock that forms when earth processes change the texture and heat and pressure are applied.

• Igneous rock

• Sedimentary rock

• Metamorphic rock

• Rock Cycle

These are traces or remains of a once-living thing sometimes found in sedimentary rocks.

• Rocks

• Sediments

• Fossils

• Minerals

This is the type of rock that forms from sediment that gets cemented or pressed together under pressure.

• Igneous rock

• Sedimentary rock

• Metamorphic rock

• Rock Cycle

This is the type of rock that forms from magma or lava hardening.

• Igneous rock

• Sedimentary rock

• Metamorphic rock

• Rock Cycle

How does a metamorphic rock become an igneous rock?

• Heat and pressure

• Melting and cooling

• Weathering/Erosion and Cementation

• Cycle

How does an igneous rock become a sedimentary rock?

• Heat and pressure

• Melting and cooling

• Weathering/Erosion and Cementation

• Cycling