5th Grade Geology Vocab Quiz

To save or protect something.

• Reuse

• Conserve

• Renewable Resource

• Adopt

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The process of dropping or depositing sediments in a new location.

• Lazy

• Conservation

• Erosion

• Deposition

A feature on Earth's surface.

• Sediment

• Weathering

• Landform

• Fossil Fuels

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Cementation is...

• Sediments that are held together by minerals that are left behind when water is pressed out of the rock layers.

• A feature of the earth's surface.

• Rock that formed when sediments were compacted and cemented together.

• To save or protect something.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas

Formed from the remains of ancient plants and marine animals that were buried and exposed to extreme heat and pressure over millions of years.

• Weathering

• Sedimentary Rock

• Cementation

• Fossil Fuels

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The process of moving sediment from one place to another.

• Compaction

• Erosion

• Conserve

• Weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The breaking down or wearing away of rock into smaller particles called sediments.

• Erosion

• Compaction

• Weathering

• Sediment

Resources that can be replaced as they are used.

• Renewable Resource

• Non-Renewable Resource

• Weathering

• Conserve

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Rock that formed when sediments were compacted and cemented together.

• Conservation

• Compaction

• Sedimentary Rock

• Cementation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Resources that nature cannot replace quickly enough to meet people's needs.

• Conservation

• Non-Renewable Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Sediment