WEATHERING
What does weathering break?
Rocks into smaller pieces.
What does weathering do?
Break down rocks in to smaller pieces
What can cause Erosion?
Water, Ice, or wind
What is an example of deposition?
Laying down of sediment carried by wind, flowing water, the sea or ice.
What process creates new sand on a dessert or beach?
Weathering
What can weathering put on rocks?
(On the outside)
Cracks
Erosion just moves sediment just a little.
True or false?
True! Deposition moves from one place to a new place but erosion just moves around.
What conditions cause deposition?
One day you are walking on the beach and you notice that in one spot the sand is a different color than what it usually looks like. It looks like the color of sand at the beach a few streets down. What process carried the sand over?
Deposition moves rocks (or sand) to different locations.
Where is a place that has a lot of sediment?
Beach, Desert, ect.
What is something in nature that can help erosion?
Replanting with vegetation and covering with mulch.
Why id deposition important?
Deposition allows these parts to settle elsewhere.
What is sediment?
After weathering breaks down the rocks the smaller pieces are called sediment.
Weathering breaks rocks into smaller pieces called ...
Sediment
How many types of erosion are there?
5!