What does erosion do?

• Break down rock
• changes rock chemically
• changes sediment in rock
• moves broken pieces of rock, or sediment, from one place to another

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Which feature forms from wind deposition?

• flood plains
• sand dunes
• deltas
• moraines

Erosion helps move ___________ from one place in order to deposit it someplace else.

• sediment
• transform
• erosion
• weathering

An earthquake is caused by a crack in the crust called a __________.

• fault
• dam
• plates
• transform

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Deposition is a process that ______________.

• Dissolves sediment
• Removes sediment from landforms
• breaks down rock to form sediment
• drops sediment to form landforms

Where do deltas form?

• in desert areas
• on the banks of rivers
• at river mouths
• in valleys formed by glaciers

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What is weathering?

• the break down of rock
• the transport of sediment
• a type of climate
• the aging of rock

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what are 3 agents of depostion

• water, wind, ice
• ice, water, sand
• soild, liquid, and gas
• wind, ice, glacier

The process that breaks up rock on Earth's surface?

• deposition
• erosion
• compaction
• weathering

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Which landform is created by plates pushing together?

• Canyon
• Delta
• Mountain
• Sea arch

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