Weathering and Erosion 4th grade

What is weathering?

• The process of an Earthquake forming

• The process of big rocks breaking down into smaller rocks due to wind, water, sun, ect.

• Another word for erosion

• The process of building a cargo ship

What causes weathering?

• Wind

• Sunlight

• Water

• All of the above

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A blizzard is an example of weathering.

• True

• False

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Everything below causes erosion EXCEPT ________

• a snowstorm

• a fast flowing source of water

• a volcano

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A sediment is _______________

• The material that comes from the weathering of a rock

• Another name for erosion

• When a mountain is broken down into small pieces

Erosion is _________________

• A volcanic eruption

• When sediments that formed from rocks that got weathered get moved to other places

• The process of big rocks breaking down into smaller rocks due to wind, water, sun, ect.

• When electricity moves through a wire

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Weathering is caused from tsunamis

• false

• true

An example of erosion is when a fast flowing river takes away sediments.

• true

• false

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