Erosion and Mass Movement

Gravity plays an important role in this types of erosion

• Abrasion

• Exfoliation

• Mass movements

• Carbonation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Very slow movement of the ground

• Landslide

• Mudflow

• Rockslide

• Creep

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Mass movement that contains 60% of water.

• Landslide

• Slump

• Mudslide

• Rockslide

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Factors that cause erosion.

• Wind, living organisms, trees

• Water, wind, ice and gravity

• Water and gravity

• Living organisms

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Difference between weathering and erosion.

• Weathering includes living organisms

• Erosion is just the breaking of the rocks.

• Erosion is the movement of the rocks and weathering just the breaking.

• Erosion does not happen in some regions.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Deposition

• Is the settling of the rocks.

• Changes the form of land in the planet

• Comes after erosion.

• All are correct.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The process by which water, ice, wind or gravity moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another.

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

• dumptruck

Which is NOT a type of mass movement?

• landslide

• slump

• mudflow

• windstorm

Rain washing away soil from a hillside

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

What is the major cause of weathering and erosion?

• wind

• ice

• glaciers

• moving water

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4