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Weathering
Erosion
Landforms
Slow Changes
Vocabulary
100

The process where rocks from Earth's crust are slowly being broken into smaller pieces.

What is Weathering

100

The difference between weathering and erosion.

What is Weathering breaks rocks into smaller pieces; erosion moves those pieces away?

100

Change to earth's surface made by rushing water.

What is a canyon?

100

A large body of slow-moving ice.

What is a Glacier?

100

A slow process of rocks getting dropped in another place by water, wind, and ice.

What is deposition?

200
What are 3 of the 4 physical causes of weathering?
Water, ice, temperature change, and living things
200

The laying down of pieces of Earth's surface.

What is Deposition?

200

Shape of a valley created by a Glacier.

What is a V-Shaped valley?

200

A landform created by weathering, erosion, and deposition at the mouth of a river.

What is a delta?

200

The process that breaks rocks down by changing their composition.

What is chemical weathering?

300
Explain how plants can weather a rock.
A plant's roots can grow inside a rock, and as they grow, it can break the rock apart.
300
Name 3 of the 4 ways weathered materials are moved.
Water, ice, gravity, and wind
300

The thing that creates Sand Dunes.

What is the wind?

300

A large hill made of sand created by erosion and deposition.

What is a sand dune?

300

Small bits of rock and soil that are moved by water to another place.

What is sediment?

400
How can ice cause physical weathering?
If water gets into the crack of a rock and then freezes, it will expand when it turns into ice. The expanding ice can cause the rock to break into smaller pieces.
400
Name 1 similarity and 1 difference between landslides and avalanches.
Both landslides and avalanches are rapid downhill movements due to gravity. Landslides are the movement of rock and soil, while avalanches are the movement of snow and ice.
400

Five Different Landforms.

Sample Answers: What are Plains, plateaus, mountains, peninsulas, valleys, canyons?

400

A large crack in the earth formed by a river or earthquake.

What is a canyon?

400

The event that occurs before Erosion.

What is Weathering?

500
Name the 2 types of weathering and how they are different.
Physical and chemical weathering. Physical weathering changes the size and physical appearance of rocks. Chemical weathering causes rocks to change into different materials.
500
Name and describe 3 ways to control erosion and deposition.
Plants - people can grow plants on hills so the roots keep the soil in place Terraces - slow the speed of water running downhill Barriers - block ocean waves from carrying the sand away
500

An area of land that is completely surrounded by water.

What is an Island?

500

These help stop or slow down erosion.

What are plants?

500

The shape of a valley created by a river.

What is a U-Shaped Valley?