RocksandMinerals:

TheChangingEarth

ByMelissaDunagan

LeeElementary/4thGrade

Thewateriscreating
erosion.Thewateris
breakingupthesoiland
carryingitaway.Howis
erosionlikeweathering?
Howisitdifferent?

Watererosionhastakenthissoilawayandcreated
trenches.Whateffectwillthishaveonthe
farmersnextcrop?

ArchesNationalParkwascreatedwhensofterrocks
weatheredduetowindandrainandtoughrocksontopwhere
leftbehindforminghugearchesandpillars.Thesedimentor
rockbitswerecarriedawayleavingtheemptyspace.

Overgreattime,weatheringfromwindcausedthese
formations.Wheredidthesedimentgo?

ArchesNationalPark
Canyouseetherocklayers?Canyou
makeanhypothesisaboutwhichtype
ofrockformedtheselayers?

Thisisbrokenuprockinariverbed.Isthisweatheringor
erosion?Whatisthesourceofchangefortherocks?

ThisisLichengrowingona
bolder.Whattypeof
organismislichen?Isthere
stillweatheringgoingon
here?Istheboulderslowly
beingbrokenintobits?

Thistreeisgrowing
outofthisrock.Is
thereweathering?
How?Predictwhat
willhappeninseveral
years.

GrandCanyon:Rocklayersformedandthenwereworn
awaywithwater.

WeatheringfromwindandrainmadeBryceCanyon.

Deeply pitted surface of limestone in a desert

environment. Rainfall erodes the limestone into pits
and channels by dissolving it. How is this like a
cave formation? How is it different?

Weatheringcausebytidesandwavesonthecoast
line.Howdothephysicalpropertiesoftherocks
tellastoryabouttheirpast?

Weatheringfromwaves
andtidesmadethis
arch.
Canyoumakea
hypothesisaboutwhat
thiscoastlinelooked
likemillionsofyears
ago?Canyoupredict
whatthiscoastlinewill
looklikeinthefuture?
Why?

BlueGlacierwithMountOlympusintheback.Seethetourists
inthefrontleft?Whyaremostglaciersfoundonmountains?Whyare
glaciersoftensurroundedbygentlyrollinghills?Whatishappeningto
theglaciereventhoughwecantnecessarilyseeit?Arethereany
predictionsyoucanmakeaboutthisglacierinthefutureusingwhatyou
knowaboutairpollution?

Thisglacieris
carvingoutaU
shapedvalley
betweenthese
mountains.Asthe
icemelts,whatis
beingcreated?If
theglacierleaves
behindpilesof
soilorrocks,what
isthiscalled?

Whichofthe3typesof
rockcanbemeltedto
formmagmaorlava?
Howaremagmaandlava
alike?Howaretheythe
same?

Itlookslikethishikerisstandingon
amountain,butitsreallyadormant
volcano.Whatrockisthis?

Whatkindofrockisthis?Whatwas
itbefore?Howdiditform?

Canyouguess
howthisblack
beachon
Santoriniin
Greeceformed?
Illgiveyoua
cluelookatthe
colorofthe
sediment?Can
youguesswhatis
locatedrightnext
doortothis
island?

Whatisthismeltedrockcalledbelowtheground?Abovetheground?

Seethedifferentrocklayersthatwereleft
behind?Whyisthereaswirlpatterninthe
rocks?Whatscientificlawdoesthispicture
illustrate?

BryceCanyon.Wasthiscanyoncreatedby
constructiveordestructiveforces?

Shiftingrocklayersformedthishill.

Rocklayerscollidingpushupwardandmakemountainsthat
slowlygroweachyear!Isthisaconstructiveordestructiveforce?