Earth's Changing Surface

When a rock breaks and the pieces roll down the mountain and land at the bottom, it is called...

• deposition.

• silt.

• chemical weathering

• heavy

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Water can cause physical and chemical weathering.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What evidence shows that Earth’s surface has changed over time? 

• ROCK FORMATIONS

• PHENOMENONS

• RAIN

• HAIL

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which is an example of slow changes to the Earth's surface?

• RAIN AND HAIL

• CANYONS AND CAVES

• EARTHQUAKES

• VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which is an example of rapid changes to the Earth's surface?

• CAVES

• EARTHQUAKES

• CANYONS

• VALLEYS

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Rocks with different color layers as evidence of?

• THAT EACH LAYER WAS FORMED AT A DIFFERENT TIME

• THAT EACH LAYER WAS FORMED AT THE SAME TIME

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Is a scientist that studies the surface of the Earth and what it is made of.

• DOCTOR

• ARCHEOLOGIST

• GEOLOGIST

• SCIENTIST

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

RED LAYERS OF ROCK, TELL US THAT:

• THE ENVIRONMENT HAD A LOT OF OXYGEN

• THE ENVIRONMENT HAD LESS OXYGEN

Natural forces include: moving water, glaciers, waves, wind and gravity.

• deposition

• mass movement

• agents of erosion

• sediment

The downhill movement of sediment because of gravity.

• deposition

• mass movement

• agents of erosion

• sediment