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WorksheetsFormation of Mountain, Weathering, Erosion & Deposition
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 9mins
What mystery is found 8,000 ft. high in the Colorado Rockies, 60 mi. west of Boulder?
Fine Acoustics
Natural Birdbaths
Fossils of Marine Animals
A Family of Yetis!
What existed for over 30 million years, and stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Sea?
A Vast Inland Sea
The Ancestral Rockies
A Sterile Promontory
Massive Pods of Ichthyosaur
What holds a key to when the Rockies first emerged, about 70 million years ago?
Large fern imprint fossils
Granite bedrock
Bubbles of Helium
Date of the ammonite's extinction
For the last 3 million years, ____ have come and gone from the Rocky Mountains.
upheavals
rivers
glaciers
Yetis
Ice turns V-shaped river valleys into what?
slick conduits
broad, U-shaped canyons
rolling plains
large sea inlets
What is the result of "Weathering?"
The breaking down and changing of rocks as a result of exposure to the environment.
The breaking down of fossils as a result of massive excavations.
The breaking down of rocks as a result of exposure to the Rock!
The breaking down and changing of rocks as a result of exposure to mystical forces.
Erosion is all about:
weathering and deposition
movement and respiration
groovy transportation
movement and transportation
Match the following images with the correct response:
Erosion
Deposition
Weathering
Match the following images with the correct type of "Physical Weathering:"
Frost Action
Exfoliation
Abrasion
Root Wedging
Which type of weathering can change the composition of the rocks?
Physical
Mechanical
Root Wedge
Chemical
When (a) flows over different (b) , it can form an (c) that is strong enough to (d) rock.
