What Is It?
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 and leave it there. What is this process called?
What is deposition?
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.
b. weathering breaks rocks into sediments and erosion moves sediment from one place to another.
Which one is NOT a way people change the Earth?
a. cutting down trees
b. digging into the Earth's surface
c. building dams
d. volcano eruptions
What is d. volcano eruptions?
Mountains, islands, valleys, canyons, volcanos and other surface features of the land.
What are landforms?
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.
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.
On a map, this is what a scale shows?
What is the distance represented?
The process by which weathered rock and sediments are carried away/moved
What is erosion?
A ________ is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides and is connected to the mainland
What is a peninsula?
Erosion can change the shape of the land faster than a flood can. True or False.
What is false?
The difference between the type of water in rivers and lakes compared to the ocean.
What is rivers and lakes have fresh water while oceans have salt water?
On a map, this is what the key/legend shows?
What is represents items on a map?
body of water that is partly surrounded by land, connects to ocean
What is a bay?
These are the cardinal directions of a compass.
What are north, east, south, and west?
Water can weather rock by:
A. eroding soil
B. by freezing and melting
C. heating and cooling
What is freezing and melting?
The difference between a river and a lake.
What is a river moves and flows and a lake does not?
a. the impacts of erosion
b. how many markets there should be
c. pollution of water and land
d. how much money to charge for their product
e. how it will impact native plants and animals
What is a. impacts of erosion, c. pollution of water and land, and e. how it will impact native plants and animals?
a deep valley with steep sides and often a stream or river flowing through it
What is a canyon?
Over time, ocean waves can cause ______ of the coastlines.
What is erosion?
Landslides are quick changes to the land. They can be caused by:
A. magma and rain
B. gravity and rain
C. ice and wind
What is gravity and rain?
Most rivers eventually flow into the _________
What is the ocean?
True or False
Environmental engineers find solutions to prevent erosion.
What is true?