Earth Science - 3rd 9 Weeks Review

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

• Erosion
• Weathering
• Abrasion
• Pressure

_____  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

What is moraine?

• A deposit of till left behind from a retreating glacier
• Dirt
• Erosion

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

• mountains 
• trees
• clouds
• all of the above

What is one cause of earthquakes? 

• The Sun's gravity pulling on our Earth. 
• Tectonic Plates striking and slipping past each other. 
• The moon phases
• Drilling wells 

What geological feature on Earth is the Ring of Fire? 

• Option A huge forest fire that happened in California1*
• A volcanic island in the Indian Ocean 
• A ring of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean 
• A science game 

When those materials stop moving and build up somewhere else.

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

A hill of sand, made and shaped by wind.

• Sand Dune
• Delta
• Fault

An area of new land at the mouth of a river.

• Sand Dune
• Delta
• Fault