Science - Earth's Features

An _____ is all the living and nonliving things in an area.

• shale

• environment

• floodplain

• sandstone

Scientists can infer what a place may have been like in the past based on _____ that are there now.

• limestone

• floodplains and fossils

• rocks and fossils

• sandstone

_____ is a type of rock with no fossils that formed when a volcano erupted and lava cooled and hardened. (example: basalt)

• Conglomerate Rock

• Volcanic Rock

• Sandstone

• Limestone

_____ is a smooth, dark-gray stone that forms when sediment collects in slow-moving water; the sediment compacts and cements over time, turning to rock.

• Shale

• Sandstone

• Limestone

• Conglomerate Rock

_____ forms from pebbles and other sediments dropped by a fast-flowing river; over time, the sediments compact and cement to form rock.

• Limestone

• Volcanic Rock

• Conglomerate Rock

• Sediment

Shale is a smooth, dark-gray stone that forms when sediment collects in _____ water.

• slow-moving

• fast-moving

Conglomerate rock forms from pebbles and other sediments dropped by a _____ river.

• slow-flowing

• fast-flowing

_____ is a flat land around a river that gets flooded sometimes.

• River Delta

• Speed of the water

• Floodplain

• Environment

_____ forms when sand compacts and cements to form rock.

• Floodplain

• Limestone

• Sandstone

• Shale

Sandstone can form near _____, _____, _____, or _____.

• rivers

• beaches

• lakes

• shallow part of the ocean

• floodplains