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Earth: Sed Rocks
Beginning of Earth I
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The dropping of sediments to a new location | Deposition |
| Wood, paper, styrofoam or glass | Insulators |
| The moving or carrying away of sediments to a new location | Erosion |
| To go through decomposition | Decay |
| How much space something takes up | Volume |
| The wearing away of sediments by wind, water, waves and ice | Weathering |
| Sticking together like glue | Cementation |
| Gravity or rain pulls the rocks and mud down the mountain | Landslide |
| The pressure of pressing together sediments | Compaction |
| The bouncing back of light | Reflect or reflection |
| Anything that lets electricity flow out of it like metals | Conductors |
| Triggered by the movement of the Earth's plates | Earthquake |
| The bending of light | Refract/refraction |
| To keep something from happening | Prevent |
| Only one of these should change in an experiment | Variable |