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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 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

Is mechanical weathering the same as physical or chemical weathering?

What is physical weathering?

200

The process where rock is broken down into smaller pieces by physical changes

What are physical weathering?

200

When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart it is called ice wedging.

What is freezes?

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
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
Erosion can change the shape of the land faster than a volcano can. True or False.
What is False?
300

 A chemical process where rocks combine with oxygen

oxidation

300

When layers of sediment pile up and the weight presses them down.

compaction

400

Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land.

What are glaciers?

400

The process where the outer layers of rock slowly peel away because of pressure changes.

Exfoliation

400
Water can weather rock by: A. eroding soil B. by freezing and melting
What is freezing and melting?
400

Rain, snow, or other precipitation that contains strong acids and causes rock to break down.

Acid Precipitation

400

 When minerals in water act like glue and stick sediments together.

cementation

500

 When water collects in cracks in rock, freezes, and expands, causing the rock to break apart.

What is a ice wedging

500

The breaking down and wearing away of rock by rubbing against other rocks.

Abrasion

500

The breakdown of rocks through chemical reactions.

chemical weathering

500

The movement of broken rock pieces to a new place by wind, water, ice, or gravity.

erosion

500

These make up rocks? 

What are minerals?