Vocabulary Surface Processes

Rain washing away soil from a hillside is an example of what?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Compaction

Waves dropping sand on the beach is an example of what?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Compaction

Tags

NGSS.4-ESS2-1

Caves being formed by acid rain dissolving underground limestone are examples of what?

• Chemical Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Mechanical Weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

____________________________ destroy and wear away landmasses, not typically creating new landforms.

• Kettles

• Deltas

• Constructive forces

• Destructive forces

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Water getting into cracks, freezing, and breaking the rocks or pavement apart is an examples of what?

• Mechanical Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Chemical Weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The natural chemical or physical processes that breaks down rock on Earth's surface.

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

• jackhammering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Unsorted rock material deposited directly by glaciers as it melts

• glacial drift

• stratified drift

• till

• glacier

The till deposited at the edge of a glacier forms a ridge called a _______________

• moraine

• drumline

• horn

• ice age

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

When a glacier retreats and large, partially buried, ice chunks are left behind to melt, these are formed:

• Moraine
• Prairie pothole
• Kettle Lake
• Fjord

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Forms when a flowing glacier scoops out an area between two mountains.

• U-Shaped Valley

• Fjord

• Kettle

• Moraine

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2