What's It Mean?
Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations. True or False
What is True?
In wet environment, the major cause of erosion is
______________
a. wind
b. animal movement
c. moving water
moving water
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?
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediments?
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
erosion
When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart.
What is freezes?
Weathering changes Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is slowly?
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?
Gigantic formations of ice that do not completely melt over the course of a year.
What is a glacier?
Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land.
glaciers
Weathering over long periods of time breaks rock into ____________ pieces. (larger or smaller)
What is smaller?
The major cause of erosion along coast is___________
a. wave action
b. tornadoes
c. earthquakes
wave actions
The roots of a plant grow in cracks of a sidewalk. As the root grows larger the cement begins to crack.
a. weathering
b. erosion
c. deposition
weathering
A growing pile of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
The sudden movement of rocks and soil down the side of a hill because of gravity and rain.
landslide
Fast flowing rivers can pick up and carry rocks (far/short) distances.
What is far?
Erosion happens before weathering.
True/False
False
A delta is formed at the mouth of a large river.
a.weathering
b. erosion
c. deposition
deposition
________________ is the process that causes eroded sediments to be dropped off.
deposition