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Stemscopes Segment 3 Sculpting Landscapes 4th Grade
Stemscopes Segment 3 Sculpting Landscapes 4th Grade
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Stemscope Review of rock patterns, plate tectonics, and changing land
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The oldest rock layer can be found on the surface of the earth.
False
True
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Mixture of sand, silt, clay, rock and humus (plant and animal remains)
Erosion
Soil
Gravity
Sediments
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A force that causes objects with mass to attract each other.
Erosion
Weathering
Gravity
Sediments
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The breakdown of solid materials into very small particles by water, air, and natural events
Weathering
Vegetation
Erosion
Soil
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A sudden release of energy under Earth's surface that makes the ground shake or crack is ....
Earthquake
Continent
Volcanoes
Mountain Range
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Patterns of magnetic stripes along boundaries of tectonic plates are....
Mountain Ranges
Continents
Earthquakes
Bands
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A large continuous land mass is a
bands
earthquake
continent
mountain range
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Where do most earthquakes occur?
Groups of islands farthest from any continents.
The central regions of very large continents.
The boundaries between continents and oceans.
The steep slopes of the very oldest mountains.
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The features of an area that you can see
Evidence
Rock Layers
Landscape
Rock Formations
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The gradual wearing down by wind, weather, are and natural events
Sediments
Weathering
Erosion
Gravity
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Sand or small pieces of rock broken down by weathering and deposited on the land or in water
Vegetation
Soil
Sediments
Erosion
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What is true about the Ring of Fire?
It shows the areas where tectonic plates are the thickest
It has been getting larger since the earth formed
It is the only place on earth where earthquakes can happen
The edges of the tectonic plates are moving in this area
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Mountains or hills made by hot rocks and gasses moving to the earth's surface from inside earth
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Continent
Deep-ocean trenches
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Where are mountains likely to form?
On the tectonic plate boundary
In the ocean
At the tectonic plate movement
On a continent
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Major geological events that occur when plates shift suddenly and release stored energy
Landscape
Earthquake
Fossils
Rock Layers
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All plants found in a particular area
Gravity
Sediments
Soil
Vegetation
