This landform is the result of changes to Earth's surface by wind.
A. Canyon
B. Mountain
C. Sand Dune
D. U-Shaped Valley
What is a sand dune?
100
In some rock, water can form caves. This inference can be made about rock that forms caves.
A. It is very hard
B. It dissolves in water
C. It doesn't react with water
D. It is mostly made of sand
What is it dissolves in water?
100
Volcanoes an create new land when they release this.
A. lava
B. water
C. faults
D. mud
What is (A) lava?
100
The section of Earth's crusts.
A. Layers of Earth
B. Tectonic Plates
C. Classes
D. Continents
What is (B) Tectonic Plates?
100
This answer most completely lists the processes by which wind can change Earth's surface.
A. erosion
B. erosion and deposition
C. deposition and weathering
D. erosion, deposition and weathering
What is (D) erosion, deposition and weathering?
200
This is the least likely to cause changes to rocks on Earth's surface.
A. Ice
B. Wind
C. Water
D. Fire
What is fire?
200
Rivers over time carve out river valleys in this shape.
A. U Shape
B. V Shape
C. W Shape
D. T Shape
What is (B) V Shape?
200
This is a landform built by the release of lava, ash, and rock.
A. Delta
B. Beach
C. Volcano
D. Earthquake
What is (C) Volcano?
200
Inner core, outer core, mantle and crust.
A. Layers of Earth
B. Tectonic Plates
C. Rock
D. Erosion
What are (A) Layers of Earth
200
This term describes the movement of rock materials from one place to another.
A. erosion
B. flooding
C. deposition
D. weathering
What is (C) deposition?
300
This change would increase the rate of weathering of a rock on Earth's surface.
A. a decrease in the amount of rain
B. a moderate increase in temperatures
C. an increase in the time the rock has been exposed
D. a decrease in the size of the exposed area of the rock
What is an increase in the time the rock has been exposed?
300
This land structure was carved by rivers.
A. Glaciers
B. Beaches
C. Deserts
D. The Grand Canyon
What is (D) The Grand Canyon?
300
This material is found deep in a volcano before it has erupted.
A. Lava
B. Magma
C. Rock
D. Ash
What is (B) Magma?
300
Wind, weather, river and streams, sea waves, and glaciers all cause this.
A. Deposition
B. Fault
C. Landforms
D. Erosion
What is (D) Erosion?
300
This best describes weathering.
A. a type of climate
B. the transport of sediment
C. the breakdown of rock
D. the aging of rock
What is (C) the breakdown of rock?
400
This process is most directly related to the formation of a delta.
A. erosion of the walls of a canyon
B. deposition of the sediments in water
C. chemical weathering of rock and soil
D. deposition of the sediments carried in a glacier
What is (B)deposition of the sediments in water?
400
This element is most responsible from forming a desert pavement.
A. Wind
B. Water
C. Ice
D. Waves
What is (A) Wind?
400
This landform is the result of changes to Earth's surface by ice.
A. delta
B. canyon
C. ocean shore
D. U-shaped valley
What is (D) U-shaped valley?
400
Melted rock that flows out of the ground onto Earth's surface.
A. Lava
B. Magma
C. Mud
D. Sand
What is (A) Lava?
400
This is caused by chemical weathering.
A. Desert pavement
B. U-shaped valleys
C. formation of rust
D. ice expanding in cracks of rock
What is (C) formation of rust?
500
This investigation would explore a process that directly leads to the formation of sedimentary rock.
A. modeling how plains and canyons form
B. measuring how temperature affects cooling of rocks
C. determining how pressure affects layers of gravel
D. observing the rate at which waves change a shoreline
What is (C) determining how pressure affects layers of gravel?
500
This is a deposit of sediment at a river's mouth.
A. River
B. Stream
C. Dune
D. Delta
What is (D) Delta?
500
This term best describes mechanical processes that break down rocks.
A. gravity
B. deposition
C. physical weathering
D. chemical weathering
What is (C) physical weathering?
500
A crack in the crust of the Earth along which there has been movements of the rocks on either side of the crack.
A. Landform
B. Deposition
C. Fault
D. Volcano
What is (C) Fault?
500
Earthquakes change the land by
A. transporting sediment
B. forming cracks in the surface
C. releasing ash and lava
D. cause chemical weathering