Changing Earth Vocabulary Practice

Water gets into cracks of rock and expands breaking rock

• ice wedging

• ice erosion

• water erosion

• chemical weathering

Bits and pieces of broken rock are called ______

• granite

• deposition

• sediment

• igneous rock

Breaks rock down into smaller pieces

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Convection

Processes that build up landforms

• Destructive Processes

• Constructive Processes

Moves sediment from one place to another by wind, water, ice, or gravity

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Convection

Processes that wear/tear down landforms over time on Earth's surface

• Destructive Processes

• Constructive Processes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A type of rock made by cooled and hardened lava or magma

• igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

The dropping off, piling up, or laying down of sediment

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Convection

Striations are scrapes in bedrock due to abrasion. Abrasion is......

• when water freezes in cracks and expands

• when rocks/sediment scrape other rocks during erosion

• the rusting of rock when iron and oxygen react

• when minerals dissolve out of the rock when exposed to water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Rock type made of bits and pieces of rock/sediment cemented together

• Igneous rock

• Sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock