Amplify Science Ch. 3 and 4 Vocab Quiz

all the living and nonliving things in an area

• environment

• stable

• erosion

• data

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when rock, soil, or sand is worn down and moved from one place to another by water, wind, or ice

• environment

• cement

• erosion

• stable

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staying mostly the same

• environment

• stable

• inference

• pattern

Which is the best example of the word "stable".

• an environment that has changed from a deep ocean to a shallow ocean

• an environment that is a beach and has not changed

• an environment that has changed from a floodplain to a shallow ocean and back to a floodplain

• an environment that was a deep ocean for many years, but then became a shallow ocean.

Which is the best example of the word "environment".

• a box of shale found in a rocky outcrop

• a floodplain with ferns growing

• a fossil of a coral

• a picture of Abraham Lincoln

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Which of these are examples of erosion? Choose all that apply.

• Wind blowing and sand grains being being lifted off the ground bouncing into solid rock before returning to the ground.

• Rain flowing quickly over very dry and hard ground that picks up speed and forming a flash flood. The water picks up and carries away tiny pieces of rock and breaking it away in tiny pieces.

• Water building up in slot canyons that freeze. The ice expands and pushes the rock apart and making tiny breaks in the rock and causing pieces to break away.

• a volcano erupting and sending lava everywhere

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Choose the best word to complete the sentence below.

Rocky outcrops in the book "Rocky Wonders" are shaped by ____________.

• evidence

• sediment

• erosion

• volcanic rock

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Choose the best word to complete the sentence below.

It is not true that rocks are _________ and never change.

• strange

• eroding

• stable

• environmental

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Choose the best word to complete the sentence below.

If we know the order of the rock layers in a rocky outcrop, we can infer the order of the ____________ that was once a part of that location.

• erosion

• sediment

• environment

• hazard

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Which definition defines the word below?

stable

• staying mostly the same

• something we notice using the five senses

• small pieces of rock

• a proposed answer to a question