5. What is a
B. Answer the following questions in not more than 20 words.
1. Define environment.
2. What are rocks made of? Name the three main types of rocks.
3. Define magma and lava.
4. What are fossils?
5. What are tectonic processes
Answers
Answer:
The place where we reside is called environment
ANSWER 1 =
All the physical surroundings on Earth are called the environment. The environment includes everything living and everything nonliving. The nonliving part of the environment has three main parts: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and the lithosphere.
ANSWER 2 =
There are three main types of rocks: sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. Each of these rocks are formed by physical changes—such as melting, cooling, eroding, compacting, or deforming—that are part of the rock cycle. Sedimentary rocks are formed from pieces of other existing rock or organic material.
ANSWER 3 =
Scientists use the term magma for molten rock that is underground and lava for molten rock that breaks through the Earth's surface.
ANSWER 4 =
A fossil is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in amber, hair, petrified wood, oil, coal, and DNA remnants.
ANSWER 5 =
Processes related to the interaction between or deformation of rigid plates forming the crust of the Earth.