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Landforms

100

What type of landform is where the ocean meets the land?

Coastline

200

What type of landform can be found in Indiana; mountains, canyons or plains?

Plains

300

What is a river valley?

Low land formed by flowing water

400

Besides land, what landform touches a coastline?

Ocean

500

Name three landforms

Mountains, Plains, Oceans, River Valleys, Coastlines or Canyon (Any of the 3)

ROCKS

100

What is the breaking apart of rocks called?

Weathering

200

What is erosion?

Moving of sediment from one place to another

300

What is the final step in the movement of sediment?

Deposition

400

As large rocks experience weathering, what happens to the size of the rock?

The rock gets smaller

500

Order these in the correct order that they happen in nature: deposition, weathering, erosion

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition

Vocabulary

100

What is a natural feature on Earth's surface?

A landform

200

What is weathering?

The breaking apart, wearing away and dissolving of rock

300

What is the material that comes from the weathering of rock?

Sediment

400

What is the laying down of sediment in a new place called?

Deposition

500

What is the scraping away of materials called?

Abrasion

Weathering (not lightning)

100

What type of weathering causes rocks to be smoother and rounder

Weathering by water

200

If the temperature drops below freezing and you see a rock split in two, what kind of weathering could cause the rock to split?

Weathering by Ice

300

Which type of weathering is like rubbing a piece of wood with sandpaper; weathering by wind, by water or by ice?

Weathering by Wind

400

How can a plant weather a rock?

The roots can grow between the cracks in a rock and expand over time

500

How are erosion and deposition different?

Erosion is moving the sediment and deposition is dropping the sediment in a new location