Weathering
Erosion
Weathering and Erosion
Deposition
Topic vocabulary
100

What are 2 types of weathering? 

chemical and physical weathering

100

What is erosion?

Erosion is the carrying away or moving rocks and sediment to a new location

100

When does erosion happen in the cycle?

A. before weathering         B. after weathering

                   C. after deposition

b.  after weathering

100

What is deposition?

When rocks and sediment are dropped or deposited in a new place.

100

iron combines with oxygen to make rust - What kind of chemical weathering (Oxidation, Hydrolysis, Carbonation)?

Oxidation

200

what is an example of physical weathering?

Weathering from water, wind, ice, or living things.

200

What is an example of wind erosion

Wind blowing sand from a sand dune to another location

200

What is weathering?

Weathering is the process of breaking down and weakening sediments that will be moved by erosion.

200

When does deposition happen in the cycle?

A. Before weathering      or

B. After erosion

B

200

What is ice wedging?

Water freezes in rocks, expands and pushes the rocks further apart

300

What is an example of chemical weathering?

acid rain, oxidation, hydrolysis, carbonation

300

Erosion can be caused by what 3 kinds of weathering?


1. Wind 2. Ice 3. Water

300

Give and example of water erosion

An example of water erosion is when a river pulls sediment and small rocks from the riverbanks and carries it all down stream to another place.

300

What pulls pieces of rock or sediment down to a new location on the earth.

Gravity

300

What process leads to deltas, sandbars and dunes?

Deposition

400

What is the correct order of the 3 parts of the erosion cycle?  (Deposition, weathering, erosion)

weathering, erosion, deposition

400

Name two things that effect the rate of erosion from rivers

Age of a river,

Slope

Speed of river

Surrounding environment

400

What is an example of ice erosion

An example is when a glacier scrapes rock and sediment as it moves  down hill, and leaves it in a different location

400

What is the difference between deposition and erosion?

 Erosion takes broken rock and sediment and moves it to a different place.

Deposition is the dropping or depositing of the rock and sediment in the place.

400

any form of water that falls from the atmosphere to Earth's surface, such as rain, snow, sleet, or hail:   

P__________________

Precipitation

500

Give an example of how weathering could be destructive.

Weathering may include violent storms, such as a hurricane, or flood. 

Rocks, mudslide, or snow can collect and slide down the side of a mountain

500

A town planted grass and trees around a hill.  What part of the erosion cycle were they trying to stop: erosion or deposition?

erosion

500

the natural features of land, esp. the shape of its surface, or the science of mapping those features: is called:    T_ _ o _ _ _ _ y

Topography

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