WorksheetsEARTH Changes
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 28mins
This is a beutiful rock called Sandstone. It is made from uhhh, duhhh sand. After a really LOOONG TIME, and PRESSURE from above, and HEAT from below, it turned from beach sand into the rock called Sandstone.
What part of the process helped it turn from beach sand to Sandstone?
heating and melting
erosion and compaction
compaction and cementation
dissolving and reformation
Let's talk about the WATER CYCLE!
Which statement is correct about how the heat from the SUN helps in the Water Cycle?
The Sun's energy moves the Earth, causing water to move in the water cycle.
The Sun's energy causes water vapor in the air to condense into cumulus clouds.
The Sun's energy heats and evaporates the water on the surface of the Earth.
The Sun's energy causes water in streams and rivers to flow into the oceans.
Where does COAL come from again???
Oh yeah, from swamps!! Dead plants and animals fell to the bottom and over a LOOONG TIME, and from the PRESSURE from above, and ........ what else? Pressure, Time and what else turned the dead plants and animals into Coal?
Heat
Freezing Temperatures
Water
Large Dinosaur bones
Remember when we did that experiment with the soil and we were trying to see which soil was going to hold all the water in the soil? Remember we talked about how this soil was not going to be able to reach the roots of a plant and so the plant was going to starve? Ok, so look at this picture and see if you can figure out which soil is holding on to all the water.
Soil 1
Soil 2
Soil 3
Soil 4
Look at this picture closely. Do you see the different layers? What kind of environment do you think this used to be? NOT right now, but long, long ago.
An area with NO living organisms
An area that was extremely hot with little water
An area that was covered by deep ocean water
An area with a very large mountain range
Let's pretend you are creating your own Sedimentary Rock. You add different colored rocks and sand on top of each other to create a rock similar to the one in the picture. When you look at the picture, what part of the Sedimentary rock does the picture show BEST?
Sedimentary rock is cemented together.
Sedimentary rock is formed in layers.
It shows the different types of sediments that are in the sedimentary rock.
It shows how common sedimentary rock is in Texas.
Dead plants and dead animals are transformed into fossil fuels because of three things... A realllllllly long amount of time, and what other two important things?
a mixture of high levels of carbon dioxide
increased pressure and heat from the rock layers
volcanic eruptions on the ocean floor
extreme temperatures in the atmosphere
Which one of these statements will NOT lead to the formation of sedimentary rock?
Organisms (plants and animals) growing and dying
Deposition of loose sediments (rocks, sand, and soil) on the bottom of the ocean
Breaking down of any kind of rock into tiny pieces
Pressure that is compacting layers of sediment
Check the boxes that are RENEWABLE RESOURCES.
Natural Gas
Trees
Petroleum
Fish
Wheat
Check the boxes that are NON - RENEWABLE Resources.
Coal
Lake
Air
Oil
Sheep
