Ga Milestones Review Earth Science

What is the process by which natural resources break down rocks?

• Erosion
• Weathering
• Abrasion
• Pressure

What is chemical weathering?

• How rocks breakdown
• The breakdown of rocks by chemical reactions that change the rocks makeup/composition
• When rocks rust
• Mechanical Weathering

Which would break down faster, granite or limestone?

• Granite
• Limestone
• At the same rate

_____  is the process in which weathered particles are picked up and moved form one place to an other.

• Weathering
• Erosion
• deposition
• sediment

What is deposition?

• The part of the erosion process in which sediment is placed in a new location or deposited.
• Sediment
• How weathered particles move from one place to another

Erosion from rock is carried mainly by water, wind, and ice.

• True
• False

What is a glacier?

• An ice cube
• A piece of land that moved over another piece of land
• Water that moves land
• large mass of ice that moves over land

Plate tectonics helps explain the formation of which of the following?

• mountains 
• trees
• clouds
• all of the above

Plate tectonics refers to the theory that __________

• the continents float on the oceans like plates
• each of the continents on the earth is also called a plate
• the surface of the earth is made up of large plates that have moved over time
• the surface of the earth is made up of large plates that cannot move

A constructive force is a force that ________  Earth's surface while a destructive force is one that __________ Earth's surface.

• builds up, tears down
• tears down, builds up