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What is an example of physical weathering?

Fracturing of rock due to the cycles of freezing and thawing.

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What is the word we use for the moving, or removing of rocks and soil by wind or water?

Erosion

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What are landforms?

Naturally occurring features on Earth's surface.

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What two things are essential for the process of deposition?

Flowing water and wind.

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What is responsible for the breakdown of Earth's surface?

running water, waves, and ice

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What is an example chemical weathering?

Acid rain

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How is erosion different than weathering?
Weathering is the breaking down of rock, and erosion is the movement of rock and soil over Earth's surface.
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What land feature is formed by running water?

A valley

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True or False: Deposition contributes to the making of a cave.
False, Erosion, and Chemical weathering are major contributors.
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What is an example of constructive forces?

Mountains being pushed up, volcanic eruptions, deposition of sediment, etc.

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How is weathering different than erosion?

Weathering breaks rocks down into sediment, while erosion carries the sediment away.

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What is erosion by water?
The process of sediment being moved by flowing bodies of water.
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What are constructive forces?

The processes that build up new land.

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What relation does deposition have with erosion?
Eroded sediments are dropped, it ends the process of erosion.
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Does deposition end the process of erosion or is it the cycle itself?

Both, although the cycle starts over again it still ends with deposition.

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What is chemical weathering?
Disintegration of rocks from chemical reactions.
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What is erosion by gravity?
Rocks on hillsides are loosened by weathering processes, and then gravity pulls the pieces downhill.
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What are destructive forces?

The processes that break down Earth's surface. Ex. Erosion, weathering, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

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Does deposition tear down or build up Earth's surface?
Builds up. Deposited sediments add on to the the Earth 's surface.
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What is the difference between mechanical and physical weathering?
Chemical weathering involves a chemical change to a substance or rock and mechanical weathering is the physical breakdown of a rock by the action of temperature change and water.
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What is physical weathering?
The breaking down of rock into smaller pieces by the action of wind, water, and temperature change.
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What is erosion?
The process in which wind, water, ice or other things move pieces of rock and soil over Earth's surface.
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Name 3 landforms.

Mountains, hills, canyons, valleys, bays, peninsulas, delta's, caves, buttes, plains, meadows, etc.

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What is deposition?

Occurs when eroded sediments are moved and dropped at another location.

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How are weathering, erosion, deposition, and landforms connected?
Weathering, Erosion , and Deposition create a cycle that builds up and tears down Earth 's surface. Landforms are the outcome of the cycle.