The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations. True or False
What is True?
100
Wind changes Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is slowly?
100
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.
What is B?
100
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediments?
200
The type of weathering when a root pushes apart a rock.
What is root wedging?
200
When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart.
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.
What is B?
200
Gigantic formations of ice that do not completely melt over the course of a year.
What is a glacier?
300
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
300
Weathering over long periods of time breaks rock into ____________ pieces. (larger or smaller)
What is smaller?
300
Regular weathering can change the shape of the land faster than a sinkhole can. True or False.
What is False?
300
Name a difference between weathering and erosion.
What is weathering makes things smaller, and erosion moves it? (answers may vary)
300
A growing pile of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
400
Type of weathering that involves the chemical breakdown of rocks.
What is chemical weathering?
400
Fast flowing rivers can pick up and carry rocks (farther/shorter) distances than a slow moving river.
What is farther?
400
Water can weather rock by:
A. eroding soil
B. by freezing and melting
What is freezing and melting?
400
The difference between ice wedging and root wedging is:
A. Temperature causes ice wedging to happen.
B. Temperature causes root wedging to happen.
What is A?
400
the surface features of a place or region?
what is topography.
500
The sudden movement of rocks down the side of a hill because of gravity and rain.
What is a rockslide?
500
All of the following are forces that change landforms EXCEPT:
a. wind b. moving water c. glaciers c. physical features
What is physical features?
500
Landslides are quick changes to the land. They can be caused by:
A. magma and rain
B. gravity and rain
What is gravity and rain?
500
The difference between physical and chemical weathering is:
A. Physical weathering just breaks things apart and chemical weathering changes the rocks forever.
B. Physical weathering breaks things apart and chemical weathering burns rocks with chemicals.
What is A?
500
Nonliving, solid material that are formed in nature and made of crystals.