Vocabulary
True or False
Facts
Miscellaneous
What Am I? (Pictures)
100
The process by which gravity, water, wind, and ice deposit weathered and relocated sediment
Deposition
100
Weather causes rocks to break down into smaller pieces.
True
100
Huge masses of ice that can break apart or grind down rocks
Glaciers
100
An area of the land where all runoff drains to the same body of water is a...
Watershed
100
Weathering
200
The process by which gravity, water, wind, and ice remove and transport sediment from one place to another
Erosion
200
Smaller pieces of rock or soil are called boulders
False, they are called sediments
200
Ice can break apart rocks as if freezes and _________ in the cracks
Expands
200
True or False: Soil is a form of weathering
False
200
Erosion
300
Earth material that is broken down by processes of weathering; can be eroded and deposited by the agents of water, wind, ice, and gravity
Sediment
300
When rock and soil are carried from one place to another it is known as deposition
False, it is called erosion
300
What weathers rocks as it freezes and expands
Water/ice
300
What type of erosion is responsible for creating deserts like the Sahara Desert?
Wind
300
Deposition
400
The mechanical or chemical processes by which gravity, water, wind, and ice break rocks into smaller pieces
Weathering
400
Rain does not carry sediments to new locations
True
400
Deposition of sand across the desert results in ________
Dunes
400
Which type of erosion transports objects objects with fast moving rivers or slow moving streams?
Water
400
Erosion
500
A relatively large area that is characterized by distinctive plant and animal communities, climate, and ecological features
Ecoregion
500
The process of sediments, soils and minerals being dropped, or deposited, in a new place is called weathering
False, it’s called deposition
500
________ are formed as sediments are deposited at the mouth of a river
Deltas
500
What are the three specific types of weathering?
Biological, chemical and mechanical
500
Weathering