1st Semester Science Review

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What type of plate boundary has plates that are sliding past each other?

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Transform plate boundary.

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What is the process called when wind blows sand and silt against exposed rock, wearing away the rock’s surface?

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Abrasion.

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Why is water considered a strong agent of chemical weathering?

Back

Water dissolves many of the minerals that make up rocks.

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What is the process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another?

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Erosion.

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Where is lava found?

Back

After a volcano erupts.

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What is a convergent plate boundary?

Back

A boundary where two tectonic plates collide.

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What is a divergent plate boundary?

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A boundary where two tectonic plates move apart.

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What is chemical weathering?

Back

The process that breaks down rocks through chemical changes.

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What is physical weathering?

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The process that breaks down rocks without changing their chemical composition.

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What is deposition?

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The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind carrying it.