Agents of Erosion

What are 2 of the 4 common agents of Erosion?

• Eroding and Breaking rocks

• Action of moving ice and Action of running water

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What is the Marine Erosion a type of?

• Wind erosion

• Glaciers erosion

• Wave erosion

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The process of breaking up Earth's surface into sediment is called...

• sediment
• erosion
• weathering
• deposition 

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What type of changes does erosion cause?

• Physical changes

• Chemical changes

• Electrical changes

• Magnetic changes

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

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Compaction

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

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Compaction

the general terms for the movement of sediment by wind, water, glaciers

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

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the breakdown of rock into smaller pieces of the same rock without any change in its composition

• mechanical weathering
• chemical weathering
• erosion
• deposition

Which agent of erosion is most likely responsible for the deposition of sandbars along ocean shorelines?

• glaciers

• mass movement

• wind action

• wave action

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The photograph below shows a U-shaped valley. Which agent of erosion most likely produced this valley’s shape?

• blowing wind

• ocean waves

• moving ice

• running water

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