Weather and Erosion

What is weathering?

• The movement of sediment

• The breaking of sediment

• The dropping of sediment

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What is erosion?

• The movement of sediment

• The breaking of sediment

• The dropping of sediment

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Which of these is an example of erosion?

• Light shinning onto a mountain

• Rain breaking down rock

• Wind blowing away sediment

• All of the above

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What is the process of moving sediments from location to another?

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Compaction

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What is an enormous mass of ice moving over land?

• Ice wedging
• Glacier
• Iceberg
• Dune

Rain washing away soil from a hillside

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

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How do plants weather rocks?

• during photosynthesis
• when roots grow into cracks of rocks and expand the rock
• when the plant moves water from the roots to the leaves
• Plants don't weather rocks

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The diagrams  shows a natural process that weathers rock.
 Which statement best explains why this process results in weathering?

• frozen water acts as a solute
• water expands when it freezes
• the mass of water increases when it freezes
• frozen water dissolves most types of rock

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Which of the following was formed through erosion?

• Eiffel Tower

• The Grand Canyon

• Mt. Rushmore

• The Pyramids of Giza

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Wind blowing sand from one location to another

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

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