A satellite image of an area in Florida shows a river with slight bends along its length. A second satellite image taken of the same area 10 years later shows the same river with a different course. What is the best explanation for the difference in the shape of the river's course between the two satellite images?

Water eroded the banks of the river and deposited the eroded soil on opposite banks, causing the river to form tighter bends

Wind blew waves across the water surface, eroding away the bank on one side of the river until the river's course changed its shape

Regular freezing and thawing of the river split the soil along the river banks, changing the shape of the river

Acid rain chemically weathered the banks along the river, forcing the river to wind back and forth

Two streams begin at the same elevation and have equal volumes. Which statement best explains why one stream could be flowing faster than the other stream?

The faster stream has a much steeper gradient (slope)

The faster stream contains more dissolved minerals

The streams are flowing in different directions

The faster stream has a lower temperature than the slower stream

What process creates new sand in a desert?

fossils of animals and plants constantly decaying

erosion of the neighboring streams

Coastal beaches are shrinking because...

polar ice caps are melting and tidal erosion is occurring

more people are moving to coastal areas

hurricanes are destroying coastal beaches

underground water reserves are being drained, causing the land to sink

Plants prevent soil erosion by-

holding dirt in place with their roots

releasing water into the atmosphere through transpiration

What happens when glaciers slowly move down a mountain?

the glaciers cause erosion by taking sediment and moving it somewhere else

the glaciers melt and form giant lakes

bits of rock, sand, and silt caused by the weathering of rocks

the process of rocks being broken down and carried away

decaying plant or animal material

Sand is sometimes removed from the ship channel to make it easier for ships to travel through. Recently sand was moved from the bottom of the channel to area beaches. Without this transfer of sand, what would most likely occur in this area in the future?

The ship channel would become shallower, and the beach would become narrower

The ship channel would become deeper, and the island would move west

The ship channel would become narrower, and the island would become completely covered with water

The ship channel would become wider, and the island would sink into the Gulf of Mexico

This picture shows a large meteorite crater in a flat, arid part of northern Arizona. How will this crater most likely change over time?

It will become less deep as the rim erodes

It will get deeper as it fills with water

It will rise up like a volcanic crater

It will wides as it fills with lava

How does freezing water cause the weathering of rocks? The freezing water—

expands cracks and breaks rocks

causes rocks to fall in landslides

The diagrams shows a natural process that weathers rock. Which statement best explains why this process results in weathering ?

the mass of water increases when it freezes

frozen water dissolves most types of rock

How does wind abrasion work?

Wind-blown sediment strikes a surface.

Sediment is blown off a surface from wind.

Wind blows large chunks of rock off a surface.

Sediment falls off of a surface on its own.

What is mechanical weathering?

Process through which rocks are physically broken into smaller pieces.

Rocks are broken down through chemical changes.

Rocks are worn away from acid in plant roots.

Rocks broken down by machinery.

Acid rain is an example of chemical weathering because

pollution gets dissolved in water and falls as rain dissolving rocks over time.

rain connected to dust falls and hits rocks so hard they break.

there is friction between rain and rocks.

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