6th Topic 10: Earth's Surface Systems

Geologic processes that operate today also operated in the past

• Uniformitarianism
• Chemical Weathering
• Erosion
• Deflation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior 

• Components
• Principle
• Significant
• Sediment

Process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered particles of rock and soil

• Deposition
• Humus
• Erosion
• Deflation

Rock is physically broken into smaller pieces

• Loess
• Significant
• Tributary
• Mechanical Weathering

Process that breaks down rock through chemical changes

• Chemical Weathering
• Delta
• Develops
• Sediment

Loose, weathered material on Earth’s surface in which plants grow

• Sand Dune
• Soil
• Ice Age
• Alluvial Fan

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Parts that come together to form a larger thing

• Components
• Develops
• Valley Glacier
• Interaction

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Dark colored substance that forms as plant and animal remains decay

• Flood Plain
• Delta
• Humus
• Tributary

Small pieces of rock or soil or the remains of plants and animals

• Suggests
• Develops
• Groundwater
• Sediment

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

When the agents of erosion lay down sediment

• Deposition
• Continental Glacier
• Runoff
• Plucking