Weathering & Erosion Mini Quiz

Erosion is....

• Rocks being broken down by the sun.

• When rocks are broken down into small grains and soil by wind and water.

• When rocks or soil are being moved from one place to another by wind and/or water.

• Being eroded by natural disasters.

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Freezing ice found in the cracks of a rock is an example of what?

• Melting

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Freezing

What is weathering?

• When rocks are broken down into small grains and soil by wind and/or water over time.

• Things are eroded by natural disasters

• When rocks are being broken down by the sun.

• When soil is being eroded by the sun.

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What is the process that picks up and moves weathered rocks?

• Erosion
• Landslide
• Weathering

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

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Glaciers

Weathering and erosion are the same thing.

• True
• False

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Wind blowing sand from one location to another is called

• Weathering
• Erosion

The process of slowly breaking rocks into smaller pieces is called

• weathering
• erosion

Wind blasting sand at rock and carving out caves

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

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The process by which small pieces of rocks and soil are carried away to new locations is called...

• deposition
• erosion
• weathering
• faults

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