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What's It Mean?
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Slow or Quick Changes
Differences
Vocabulary
100
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
Volcanoes change Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is quickly?
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
Mountains and other surface features of the land.
What are landforms?
200

Weathering is caused by water, air, chemical, plants, and animals.  True/False?

What is true?

200
Weathering changes Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is slowly?
200
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

 hot molten rock

What is magma?

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
Erosion can change the shape of the land faster than a volcano 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?
300

A naturally occurring solid substance that does not come from animals and plants. 

What is a mineral?

400
Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land.
What are glaciers?
400
Fast flowing rivers can pick up and carry rocks (far/short) distances.
What is far?
400
Water can weather rock by: A. eroding soil B. by freezing and melting
What is freezing and melting?
400

The difference between earthquakes and a fault is; a. an earthquake a sudden and violent shaking of the ground as a result of movements within the earth's crust and a fault is a break or crack in rocks where Earth's crust can move. b. earthquake is a break or crack in rocks and fault is a violent shaking of the ground. 

What is a? 

400

A solid made up of one or more minerals. 

What is a rock? 

500
The sudden movement of rocks and soil down the side of a hill because of gravity and rain.
What is a landslide?
500

All of the following are forces that change landforms EXCEPT: a. wind b. moving water c. glaciers d. 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

A continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again. 

What is the rock cycle?