What's It Mean?
Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations.
True or False?
What is True?
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?
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What are sediments?
Weathering is caused by water, air, chemical, plants, and animals.
True/False?
What is true?
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?
Hot molten rock is also known as this.
What is magma?
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 naturally occurring solid substance that does not come from animals and plants.
What is a mineral?
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 earthquakes and a fault is;
A. an earthquake is a sudden and violent shaking of the ground as a result of movements within the earth's crust and a fault is a break or crack in rocks where Earth's crust can move.
B. earthquake is a break or cracks in rocks and fault is a violent shaking of the ground.
What is A?
A solid made up of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
All of the following are forces that change landforms EXCEPT:
a. wind b. moving water
c. glaciers d. physical features
What are physical features?
Landslides are quick changes to the land. They can be caused by:
A. magma and rain B. gravity and rain
What is gravity and rain?
The difference between physical and chemical weathering is:
A. Physical weathering just breaks things apart and chemical weathering changes the rocks forever.
B. Physical weathering breaks things apart and chemical weathering burns rocks with chemicals.
What is A?
A continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.
What is the rock cycle?