Weathering and Erosion

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What is the process that picks up and moves weathered rocks?

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Erosion

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

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What is an enormous mass of ice moving over land, causing weathering of rock and soil? Options: A glacier, An iceberg, An ice wedge, A sand dune

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A glacier

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Front

What is the wearing away or breaking down of rocks called?

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Weathering

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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Weathering and erosion are the same thing.

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False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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What is weathering?

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The breaking down of
Earth’s crust into smaller
and smaller pieces.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Front

Erosion

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The process by which
water, ice, wind or gravity
moves fragments of rock
and soil.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Front

What caused this rock to break apart? Options: ice, plant, wind, rain

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plant

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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Wind blasting sand at rock and carving out caves

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Weathering

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Front

Wind blowing sand from one location to another

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Erosion

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

Front

Over long periods of time, deposition may change the Earth’s surface by _____.

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forming new land features.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2