Vocab Quiz Practice (Fall Field Trip Terms)

Breaks down rocks and transports the sediments from one place to another.

• weathering
• erosion
• deposition

The bottom of the stream

• Bed
• Floor
• Rock

Rock folding is most likely caused by what?

• a volcano
• an earthquake
• a hurricane

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Nature's way of wearing down rocks into smaller particles.

• weathering
• erosion
• sandpaper

The squeezing of sediments to form rocks is ___________________.

• deposition
• compaction
• stream bed

Broken pieces of rock

• sediments

• fragments

• layers

Sandstone, shale, and limestone are_____________.

• sedimentary rocks
• metamorphic rocks
• igneous rocks

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Sedimentary river rock that is dark and smooth.

• sandstone
• shale
• limestone

What are large bodies of slowly moving ice.

• glaciers

• rivers

• bulldozers

Which type of sedimentary rock is made up of the hard parts of once living sea animals?

• limestone
• sandstone
• shale

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3