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100

The breaking down of rock into smaller pieces.

What is weathering?

100
Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations. True or False
What is True?
100

Alpine or continental glaciers form in the mountains. 

What is alpine?

100

What in the ground water makes it dissolve rock and form a cave 

Acid 

100
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediments?
200
Mountains and other surface features of the land.
What are landforms?
200
When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart.
What is freezes?
200
Weathering changes Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is slowly?
200

How is a canyon formed? 

by erosion from running water 

200
Gigantic formations of ice that do not completely melt over the course of a year.
What is a glacier?
300
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
300
Weathering over long periods of time breaks rock into ____________ pieces. (larger or smaller)
What is smaller?
300
Erosion can change the shape of the land faster than a volcano can. True or False.
What is False?
300
Name a difference between weathering and erosion.
What is weathering makes things smaller, and erosion moves it?
300

A growing pile of deposited sediment where a river meets a larger body of water.

What is a delta?

400
Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land.
What are glaciers?
400
Fast flowing rivers can pick up and carry rocks (far/short) distances.
What is far?
400
Water can weather rock by: A. eroding soil B. by freezing and melting
What is freezing and melting?
400

Alluvial fans and Deltas are made by 

deposition 

400

This is the term for height above sea level 

elevation 

500
The sudden movement of rocks and soil down the side of a hill because of gravity and rain.
What is a landslide?
500
All of the following are forces that change landforms EXCEPT: a. wind b. moving water c. glaciers c. physical features
What is physical features?
500
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?
500

sand dunes are formed when _____ ___________ sand over an obstacle  

Wind, Deposit 

500

Order these landforms in the order that that form.
Sea stack, sea cave, sea arch, sea cliff 

Sea cliff, Sea cave, sea arch, sea stack 

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