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Vocabulary
100
The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface 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

Volcanoes change Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)

What is quickly?

100

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?

100

Small pieces that break off of rocks.

What are 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

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?

200

This is when a large mass of land slides downhill.

What is a slump?

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 at the mouth of a river.
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 (long/short) distances.

What is long?

400

This is the speed a creep usually goes.

What is slowly?

400

The difference between permeable rocks and non-permeable rocks is that permeable rocks weather ___________ (more quickly or more slowly) than non-permeable rocks.

What is more quickly?

400

This is when sand and other rock particles grind away at exposed rock (often happens with glaciers).

What is abrasion?

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 

d. physical features

What are 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

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?

500

This word is used to describe rocks that are full of tiny holes (these kinds of rocks are weathered very quickly).

What is permeable?

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