Weather Erosion and Deposition

How does a glacier affect an area? Select all that apply.

• As a glacier moves across a valley is deposits rocks and boulders.

• Glaciers can form jagged peaks and flatten or scoop out large sections of land creating valleys.

• Glaciers erode soil, rock, and large boulders from the valley floor and carry them off.

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Which of the following are examples of water and gravity working together to erode soil, sediment, and rock? Select all that apply.

• Wind carries sediment and then it continues to travel in waves.

• Streams flow because of gravity. The flow causes erosion of material in its path.

• Gravity causes glaciers to move down-slope, and glaciers erode rock underneath of them.

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Which of the following are examples of water depositing rock, soil, and sediment? Select all that apply.

• Waves can deposit sediment in areas offshore, where they build up to be sandbars and sand dunes.

• Rivers can carry sediment downstream to deposit it when the water enters into a larger body of water.

• Wind carrying sand.

• Glaciers eroded sediment and rock as it moves through a valley.

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Which of the following is a factor in weathering caused by gravity?

• size of the boulders at the base of the glacier

• presence of living organisms on the rocks

• presence of water at one end of the glacier

• slope of the ground that the glacier is on

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Which evidence in the picture best illustrates the occurrence of deposition?

• the glacier ending in water

• rocks and sediment at the edges of the glacier

• the color of the rock formations

• areas of water where the glacier may be melting

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What type of weathering? (Note the texture of the rock surface.)

• Chemical

• Physical

A larger block of rock will weather more slowly than smaller broken pieces of the same rock.

• True

• False

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What type of weathering?

• Chemical

• Physical

What type of weathering? (Note the color of the rock)

• Chemical

• Physical

What is the process that picks up and moves weathered rocks?

• Deposition

• Landslide

• Weathering

• Erosion