Weathering and Erosion Vocabulary

What is the process called when eroded materials are dropped off in a new location?

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Plucking

weathering

• the breaking down of rocks into sediments

• rain, snow, hail, or hurricanes

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chemical erosion

• when the minerals in a rock are changed, causing the rock to break down

• when bigger rocks are broken down into smaller rocks

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erosion

• the wearing away of rocks and soil by wind, water, or glaciers

• the breaking down of rocks into sediments

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_____________________ is the movement of soil and rock by wind, water, ice, and gravity.

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

_____________________ changes the identity of rocks and it involves a chemical reaction or change.

• Physical weathering

• Chemical weathering

• Deposition

This is an example of _____________________________.

• physical weathering

• chemical weathering

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Which process describes water getting into cracks, freezing, and breaking the rocks or pavement apart?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

Which process describes wind blasting sand at rock and carving out arches?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

Physical and chemical weathering both

• change rocks into new materials.

• dissolve rocks.

• break rocks into smaller pieces.

• require exposure to air.

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