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