What are the main causes of weathering?
Surface Features Construction and Destruction

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Science
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3rd - 5th Grade
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Hard
Beth St. Andre
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Shape and landscape of the earth
Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and volcanoes
Rain, ice, water, and gravity
Pieces of earth depositing somewhere else
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
What is deposition?
Pieces of earth moving and depositing somewhere else
Pieces of earth broken down by weathering
When soil is washed away
Rain, freezing temperatures, gravity, and wind
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
What is erosion?
Water, wind, gravity, and freezing temperatures
Pieces of earth broken down by weathering
Sand created from ocean waves pounding on rocks
Deposited materials that create new landforms
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
What do we call a slowly moving mass of ice?
Frozen water
Mountain
Glacier
Ice Cream
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
How does a crack form in the sidewalk?
When heat causes it to expand and cold causes it to contract
Particles are blown by the wind over time
Ocean waves
Mud slide
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Wind carries sand particles close to the surface and they hit the bottom of the rock more than the top. What does this cause?
A crack in the sidewalk
A mushroom rock
Deposition
Tornado
7.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 5 pts
Why does weathering affect different materials differently?
Small pieces of the earth causes little damage
Properties of rock can be hard or soft
Sun overheats surfaces
Sometimes it happens fast and sometimes slowly
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