Earth's Landscapes

What formed the Grand Canyon?

• a river

• dinosaurs

• a glacier

• humans

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What evidence was found that this place was once under the ocean?

• a shark tooth

• ancient saltwater

• dinosaur skeleton

• an old boat

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What provides evidence of past life?

• microscope

• books

• weather data

• fossils

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Where did the silt surrounding the fossils come from?

• mountains

• ocean

• plains

• glacier

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What is a rock layer with lots of skeletons called?

• bone bed

• bone pile

• river bed

• biological layer

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Which rocks are the youngest in this photo?

• the rocks at the top

• the rocks at the bottom

• the rocks on the right side

• the rocks on the left side

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Which of these caused the Sharktooth Hill bone bed to form?

• a river stopped and started flowing

• volcanic eruption

• sharks ate all the animals

• major earthquake

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_____can cause slow changes to Earth's landscape.

• wind

• water

• sand

• all of the above

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What can cause slow changes to Earth's surface?

• floods and landslides

• weathering and erosion

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The process of ______breaks down rocks into smaller and smaller pieces.

• erosion

• weathering

• heating