Changes to Earth Review

How do these layers become rock?

• The color of the layers are diffrent colors

• The layers of the rock are different sizes

• The weight of of the water causes compaction and cementation

• The weight of the water causes erosion and deposition

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How can these plants form fossil fuels?

(Choose 2)

• Plants sink to the bottom and become fossils.

• Plants grow roots beneath the swamp surface.

• After millions of years with heat and pressure.

• Plants are eroded into sediments

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Which image is similar to that of a canyon forming?

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Which describes the process of the rock cycle that creates sedimentary rocks?

• Weathering

  Erosion

  Deposition

• Time

  Heat

  Pressure

• Weathering

  Erosion

  Deposition

  Compaction

  Cementation

• Swamps

  Plant Fossils

  Burial

  Sediments

  Time

  Pressure

What must be present in order for fossil fuels to form?

(Choose all that apply)

• Decaying Plants

• Burial

• Rocks

• Compaction

• Spring Water

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How is a u-shaped valley formed?

• Glaciers

• Rivers

• Hurricanes

• Strong Rain

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How is a canyon formed?

• Glacier

• Running water such as a river

• Exposure to thunder storms

• Ocean waves over time

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What usually causes cracks in mountains that makes rocks break off?

• Running water such as a river

• Ice wedging where water freezes and unfreezes causing weathering.

• Landslides caused by strong winds or floods.

• Earthquakes

What can cause the formation of a cannon?

• Rivers

• Wind

• Heavy Floods

• High rising waves such as a tsunamis.

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