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landforms & changes
Mr. Smith's 6th grade Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What type of mountain is the most common? | fold mountain |
| a fold mountain is made mostly of what? | rock layers folded by being squeezed together? |
| Name an example of a fold mountain. | Appalachian |
| What type of mountain is made of huge tilted blocks of rocks separated by a fault? | fault-block mountain |
| Name an example of a fault-block mountain. | Grand Tetons of Wyoming |
| A large area of flat land at high elevation | plateau |
| How are weathering and erosion a like? | they work together to shape and form the land |
| How are weathering and erosion different? | erosion moves, weathering breaks down |
| breaking down of rock by physical changes | mechanical weathering |
| name examples of mechanical weathering | freezing, thawing, burrowing animals, frost, collision with water |
| breaks down rocks by changing what they are made of | chemical weathering |
| any of the layers of soil from the surface to the bedrock at the bottom | soil horizon |
| name the 4 soil horizons | topsoil, subsoil, weathered rocks, bedrock |
| rich in humus and gray to black in color | topsoil |
| material the soil is made of from the breakdown of plants and animals | humus |
| downhill movement of Earth material caused by gravity | mass wasting |
| if more snow falls in the winter than melts in the summer, what is created | glaciers |
| a river creates what shaped valley | V-shape |
| a glacier create what shaped valley | U-shaped |
| what pulls things from high places down to low places | gravity |
| dropping off of Earth's materials | deposition |
| if the wind is faster than normal, what is more likely to be carried | large particles |
| bits and pieces of rock carried by moving water | act as tiny drills |
| jumble of many sized pieces of sediment that is frozen into a glacier | till |
| what is formed when glaciers scrape huge bowl shapes into the ground | ponds or lakes |
| piles of teardrop-shaped till | drumlins |
| breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces by natural processes | weathering |
| pikcing up and removal of rock fragments and other particles | erosion |
| water that soaks into soil and rock by collecting in spaces between rock particles | groundwater |
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