Lessons
What is the structure of Earth?
What causes earthquakes and volcanoes?
What is weathering?
What is erosion?
How are minerals identified?
How are rocks classified?
9-Earth's Changing Surface
Vocabulary
crust 7. mantle
core 8. plate
mechanical weathering 9. chemical weathering
erosion 10. deposition
igneous 11. . sedimentary
metamorphic 12. rock cycle
Lesson 1, What is the structure of Earth?
What is Earth’s crust?
What is the continental shelf?
What is the continental slope?
What is Earth’s mantle?
What is the mantle made of?
How does material in the mantle flow?
What forms the lithosphere?
What is at the center of the Earth?
What type of substance is the inner core?
What type of substance is the outer core?
What instrument measures earthquake waves?
Seismograph
Lesson 2, What causes earthquakes and volcanoes?
What are plates?
How much do Earth’s plates move?
What are some landforms created by plate movement?
What are plate boundaries?
What are the major plate boundaries?
When do earthquakes occur?
What is the focus?
What is the epicenter?
What are some results of earthquakes?
When do volcanoes form?
Lesson 3, What is weathering?
What is weathering?
What causes mechanical weathering?
What are the forces that cause mechanical weathering?
What causes chemical weathering?
What are some agents that cause chemical weathering?
What happens when water freezes?
How is soil made?
What is topsoil?
What is subsoil?
What is bedrock?
Lesson 4, What is erosion?
What is erosion?
What are some landforms that result from erosion?
What are the main forces that cause erosion?
What is deposition?
What are some landforms that result from deposition?
What can result from wave erosion?
What can result from wind erosion?
What are sand dunes?
What is the result of field erosion?
Which do glaciers cause, erosion, or deposition?
Lesson 5, How are minerals identified?
What are minerals?
Where are minerals found?
What are some properties of minerals?
How do scientists identify unknown minerals?
What is the property luster?
What is the property streak?
What is the property texture?
What is used to measure the hardness of a mineral?
What is the property magnetism?
What are other ways in which minerals can be identified?
Lesson 6, How are rocks classified?
What are the three types of rocks?
How are igneous rocks formed? Common igneous rocks?
How are sedimentary rocks formed? Common sedimentary rocks?
What is unique about sedimentary rocks? Common sedimentary rocks?
How are metamorphic rocks formed? Examples of metamorphic rocks?
What is the rock cycle?
How does a scientist find the relative age of a fossil?
Where are the youngest rock layers found?
Where are the oldest rock layers found?
What causes scientists to be unsure about the age of rock layers?
