Earth and Space vocab pre/post assessment

What is weathering?

• The movement of sediment

• A small piece of rock

• The breaking down of larger rocks into sediment

• A triangular shaped landform at the mouth of a river

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is sediment?

• a triangular shaped landform

• a large, slow-moving chunk of ice

• small pieces of rock broken away from the surface of the earth that can be carried and deposited in new locations

What is erosion?

• The movement of sediment

• The breaking down of larger rocks into sediment

• A triangular shaped landform at the mouth of a river

• A large, slow-moving chunk of ice

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the water cycle?

• the condition of the atmosphere for a short period of time

• the change of water from one state to another as it moves between the Earth's surface and the atmosphere

• when water evaporates

• when water changes from a gas to a liquid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Evaporation-

• the heating up of liquid water into water vapor

• the cooling of water vapor back into a liquid

• the collection of water on Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is deposition?

• The dropping off of sediment in a new location

• The movement of sediment

• A small piece of rock

• A large, slow-moving chunk of ice

Precipitation-

• the collection of water on Earth

• rain, snow, sleet, hail

• a continuous cycle of water on Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Accumulation-

• rain, snow, sleet, hail

• the collection of water on Earth's surface

• water vapor turning back into a liquid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Conservation-

• throwing away or getting rid of products no longer needed

• limiting the amount of use or useing resources wisely

• collecting and processing used materials into new products

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

moon-

• a sphere-like, white object in the sky

• one of the 4 periods of the year

• the changing appearance every 29 days

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1