© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 1 Rocks and Weathering
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 2 Q1. What do we call a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals?
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 3 A1. Rock
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 4 Q2. What do we call the physical, biological or chemical breakdown of rocks?
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 5 A2. Weathering
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 6 Q3. What do we call the transport of weathered rock?
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 7 A3. Erosion
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 8 Q4. What do we call the deposition (laying down) of small particles of rock, usually on a sea or river bed?
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 9 A4. Sedimentation
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 10 Q5. What word means rubbing away, for example when rocks are swept along by a river?
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 11 A5. Abrasion
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 12 Q6. What do you call the place where a river joins the sea?
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 13 A6. An estuary A delta
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 14 Q7. What do you call a valley full of flowing ice?
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 15 A7. A glacier
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 16 Q8. Give a word that means able to soak up liquid like a sponge
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 17 A8. Porous
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 18 Q9. Name a hard, white form of calcium carbonate that can be polished and that is used to make statues?
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 19 A9. Marble
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 20 Q10. Name a soft, white form of calcium carbonate that forms the cliffs near Dover.
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 21 A10. Chalk
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 22 Q11. Name a form of calcium carbonate that is softer than marble but harder than chalk.
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 23 A11. Limestone
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 24 Q12. Name a hard, igneous rock with large pink, grey, black and white crystals.
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 25 A12. Granite
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 26 Q13. Name a black, volcanic rock with tiny crystals.
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 27 A13. Basalt
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 28 Q14. Name the shiny black, glassy volcanic rock which has no crystals in it.
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 29 A14. Obsidian
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 30 Q15. Name a light grey volcanic rock that floats on water. It is used to remove hard skin.
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 31 A15. Pumice
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 32 Q16. What do we call liquid drops that fall from the sky in a storm?
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 33 A16. Rain
© NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 8g - Rocks and Weathering 34 Well Done! Now check your score