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What's It Mean?
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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
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediments?
200
Mountains and other surface features of the land.
What are landforms?
200
When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart.
What is freezes?
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
A growing pile of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
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
Large piles of sediment that are leftover from glaciers when they melt.
What are moraines?
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 c. physical features
What is physical features?
500
Nonliving, solid material that are formed in nature and made of crystals.
What are minerals?