5th Grade Earth Science TEKS

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Material made of tiny pieces of rock, minerals, and decayed plant and animal matter.

Materials eroded by water, wind, or ice are dropped in a new place

The spinning of Earth on its axis.

Electricity made from the energy of moving or falling water

a type of rock formed by gravity pressing fragments of other rocks and minerals together as they settle on land or under the ocean over a long period of time.

several types of naturally occurring fuels formed from the remains of plants and animals that died thousands or millions of years ago including a solid (coal), a liquid (petroleum), or a gas (natural gas).

Resources that nature replaces as they are used.

The cycle that exists between plants and animals that allows all organisms to survive in which plants give out oxygen that animals breathe in and turn into CO2 which is then used by plants.