What's It Meaning?
The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations. True or False
What is True?
Volcanoes change Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is quickly?
The difference between weathering and erosion is: a. weathering causes a quick change in landforms and erosion causes a slow change in landforms. b. weathering breaks rocks into sediments and erosion moves sediment from one place to another.
What is B?
The small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediments?
A mound of sand usually formed by the wind.
What are sand dunes?
When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart.
What is freezes?
Weathering changes Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is slowly?
The difference between erosion and deposition is: a. erosion moves sediment from one place to another and deposition is a physical feature on the Earth. b. deposition is the process of dropping , or depositing , sediment in a new location and erosion is the process of moving sediment from one place to another.
What is B?
Gigantic formations of ice that do not completely melt over the course of a year.
What is a glacier?
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
Weathering over long periods of time breaks rock into ____________ pieces. (larger or smaller)
What is smaller?
Erosion can change the shape of the land faster than a volcano can. True or False.
What is False?
Name a difference between weathering and erosion.
What is weathering makes things smaller, and erosion moves it?
A growing pile of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land.
What are glaciers?
Fast flowing rivers can pick up and carry rocks (far/short) distances.
What is far?
Water can weather rock by: A. eroding soil B. by freezing and melting
What is freezing and melting?
The difference between a quick and a slow change.
What is something that happens in a matter of minutes or hours versus something that happens over many years?
A very large rock
What is a boulder?
To open wide or get bigger
What is expand?
All of the following are forces that change landforms EXCEPT: a. wind b. moving water c. glaciers c. physical features
What is physical features?
Formation of canyons or valleys (quick or slow change)
What is a slow change?
The difference between natural Earth events and man-made events.
What is things that naturally happen to Earth to change its shape versus things that are caused by man?
Earth's surface where slow changes happen.
What is Earth's crust?