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Earth: Sed Rocks
Beginning of Earth I
Question | Answer |
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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 |