Wave erosion

Wave erosion

By Hanan Salah

Summary

• Weathering breaks down the rock

• Erosion moves the rock

• Deposition is where the rock ends up

Multiple Choice

The process that breaks down rocks and other materials on Earth's surface is called

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Decomposition

Multiple Choice

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

• Deposition
• Landslide
• Weathering
• Erosion

Multiple Choice

Over long periods of time, deposition may change the Earth’s surface by _____.

• forming new land features.

• breaking down large rocks into smaller ones.

• washing away beaches.

• moving topsoil.

Multiple Choice

What is an enormous mass of ice moving over land, causing weathering of rock and soil?

• A glacier

• An iceberg

• An ice wedge

• A sand dune

Multiple Choice

What is the wearing away or breaking down of rocks called?

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Glaciers

• Weathering

Multiple Choice

A delta is formed by the action of -

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

• condensation

Multiple Choice

Some agents of weathering are water, wind, ice, temperature and plant roots.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

_____ is the process by which soil and sediment (weathered rock) are transported (moved) from one place to another by water, wind, glaciers, and gravity

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Weathering

• Running Water

Multiple Choice

Weathering and erosion are the same thing.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

A farmer's topsoil is blown away during a hurricane is an example of ___________.

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

Multiple Choice

Rocks being picked up and carried downstream is an example of ____________.

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

Multiple Choice

What causes the greatest erosion effect on our beaches?

• Waves

• Gravity

• Glaciers

• Wind

Multiple Choice

What happens when land that is usually dry gets coveredunder water?

• snow

• flood

• wind

• rainbow

Multiple Choice

Floods are very _______.

• dangerous

• safe

• different

• destroy

Multiple Choice

Floods are caused by ______ rains

• hard

• heavy

• harm

• cloudy

Multiple Choice

Floods are caused by heavy rains and river ______.

• lakes

• bridges

• flows

• overflows

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