Weathering
What is weathering?
What is the breaking down of rocks?
What is erosion?
What is the movement of sediments from one place to another?
What are large pieces of the Earth's crust called?
What are tectonic plates?
What is the process that builds up landforms?
What is constructive processes?
What is the process that breaks down landforms?
What is destructive processes?
What is one cause of weathering?
Name one agent of erosion.
What is water, wind, or ice?
What happens at the boundaries of tectonic plates?
What is earthquakes, volcanoes, or mountain building?
Name one example of a constructive process?
What is a volcanic eruption that creates new fertile soil.
Name one examples of a destructive process
What is erosion?
How does weather contribute to weathering?
What is water can seep into cracks and freeze, causing rocks to break?
How can erosion change a landscape?
What is it can remove soil and rock, changing landforms?
Describe one type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary where plates collide?
How do mountains form through constructive process?
What is through the buildup of rock and sediment?
How does weathering contribute to destructive processes?
What is it breaks down rocks into smaller pieces?
What is chemical weathering?
What is when rocks undergo chemical changes?
How does human activity contribute to erosion?
What is through construction and farming practices?
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
What is the theory that explains the movement of Earth's plates?
What is Pangea?
Describe what a Jetty is used for?
What is jettys protect the shoreline by becoming a barrier against waves and currents from the ocean.
What are the two types of weathering and how are they different?
What is physical and chemical weathering? What is chemical weathering changes the composition, while physical weathering does not?
How does plant growth affect weathering?
What is roots can break rocks apart as they grow?
What is the relationship between erosion and sediments?
How do plate tectonics affect Earth's surface?
What is they cause changes in landforms and geological activity?
What is the difference between and dam and a levee?
What is a dam is built across waterways and blocks or changes the natural flow of water and a levee does not block the flow of water like a dam does
How can human activities contribute to destructive processes?
What is through deforestation and pollution?