Weathering & Erosion

The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another.

• Weathering

• Erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is an enormous mass of ice moving over land, causing weathering of rock and soil?

• A glacier
• An iceberg
• An ice wedge
• A sand dune

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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

• Weathering

• Erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Weathering and erosion are the same thing.

• True
• False

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

Wind blowing sand from one location to another is called

• Weathering
• Erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A mudslide flowing down a steep hill is called?

• Weathering
• Erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The process of slowly breaking rocks into smaller pieces is called

• weathering
• erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Flood water pounding against a canyon wall and wearing it down

• Weathering
• Erosion

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

What is the correct sequence?

• Deposition, Erosion, Weathering

• Weathering, Erosion, Depostion

• Erosion, Deposition, Weathering

• Erosion, Weathering, Deposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Sediments piling up at the bottom of a hill or at the bottom of the ocean floor are examples of

• weathering
• erosion
• deposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2