Natural Disasters & W.E.D.

What can you infer about a landslide?

• Landslides are caused by hurricanes

• Landslides are a constructive process that build new mountains and dams on the surface of the earth.

• Landslides are helpful to road crews.

• Landslides are a destructive process that break apart the surface of the earth.

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How can plants cause the weathering of rocks?

• plant roots can use the rocks as a source of nutrients and break them down over time

• plants can chemically break down rocks using photosynthesis

• plants can release water vapor into the air that causes the rocks to break down over time.

• roots can grow into or near rocks causing the rocks to break down over a period of time

The wearing away of rocks and soil is?

• erosion

• deposition

• weathering

• delta

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

• weathering

• deposition

• erosion

• crop rotation

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Landslides and floods are______________ forces.

• constructive and destructive

• only constructive

• physical changes

• only destructive

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Which process is most likely to create new land in a short period of time?

• Glacial (Icebergs) movement

• Volcanic eruption

• Large pieces of rock breaking into smaller pieces

• River erosion

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When an earthquake happens underwater it can cause a?

• mudslide

• avalanche

• volcano

• tsunamis

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What natural process causes hot spots that form islands?

• earthquake

• volcano

• flood

• landslide

Which best describes how new land can be formed over time?

• A fault was formed as the river eroded the beach.

• An island was formed as the river eroded the beach.

• A stream was formed with the movement of sediment.

• A delta was formed by sediment being deposited at the mouth of a river.

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Are volcanoes constructive, destructive, or both?

• only constructive

• both; constructive & destructive

• only destructive

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