| Landforms | ||
| #1 | How are canyons formed? | Flowing water from rivers erode the land. |
| #2 | What landform is flat, wide, and found on the top of canyons? | Plateaus |
| #3 | What landform is low, long and narrow? | Valley |
| #4 | There is a tall and jagged mountain and a short and rounded mountain. Which mountain is older and why? | The shorter rounded mountain is older because it has been eroded. |
| #5 | What are TWO reasons why sand dunes continually change size and shape. | The sand can be moved and or formations shaped by wind, water, human activity, or storms. |
| Agents of Erosion | ||
| #1 | What is erosion? | Erosion is the movement of sediment. |
| #2 | How does temperature change a playground blacktop? | The plant roots push apart the pavement causing cracks in the blacktop. |
| #3 | How do plants change a playground blacktop? | The blacktop had moisture trapped in the pavement and the temperature went to freezing, the moisture expands and cracks the pavement. |
| #4 | What is a landslide/mudslide? | When large rocks are removed from a cliff face and deposited at the bottom of a canyon wall. |
| #5 | How does water change canyon walls? | Water erodes the canyon walls by moving sediment with it. |
| Weathering or Erosion? | ||
| #1 | Soil washing away from the sides of a riverbank... | Erosion |
| #2 | Rocks falling down the side of a mountain... | Erosion |
| #3 | Sand dunes moving and changing shape with ocean waves... | Erosion |
| #4 | Plant Roots growing through sidewalks in concrete... | Weathering |
| #5 | Ice freezing and expanding to break concrete... | Weathering |
| Anything Goes | ||
| #1 | How are dunes formed? | Wind blows sand. |
| #2 | What agent of erosion cases the most changes to landforms? | Water |
| #3 | How are canyons created? | Glaciers or rivers carve them out. |
| #4 | How are islands created? | Islands are created when an underwater volcano erupts and gets built up and the magma starts hardening above the Earth's surface. |
| #5 | How are mountains created? | Earth's tectonic plates slide under one another and the Earth's crust gets pushed up. |
| Mystery | ||
| #1 | Is there more salt water or fresh water on the Earth? | Salt Water |
| #2 | Is the Earth covered by more water or more land? | Water |
| #3 | What is a rapid change to the Earth's surface? | Earthquakes that move the land and rocks. |
| #4 | Descrive TWO changes to the Earth's surface that glaciers cause. | 1. Rivers and lakes are formed from the scooping out of the land. 2. Mountains are formed or crushed down. 3. More fertile soil is created |
| #5 | What natural process causes wearing away of statues? | Blowing wind and rain. |
| Final Question | |
| Is drinking water ever in short supply for people on Earth? Explain. | Yes, the Earth is covered more by water than land, but most of that water is salt water. We can't drink salt water. |