Surface Features

Nature’s change agents have been both _____________and _____________by building up and carving Earth’s surface for billions of years, creating slow and rapid changes to landforms that resulted in an amazing diversity of landscapes.

• positive and negative

• great and small

• constructive and destructive

• natural and manmade

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Constructive processes build surface features. Several forces have been in action to alter the landscape of Earth for billions of years. Some are _________processes like the deposition of soil and the gradual uplifting of blocks of land along fault zones.

• slow

• rapid

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_______ processes quickly change the surface, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

• slow

• rapid

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River deltas, beaches, dunes, sandbars, floodplains, Glacial moraines, and Alluvial fans are all examples of soil deposition and

• Constructive processes.

• Destructive processes.

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Can a process that alters the Earth’s surface be both destructive and constructive, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?

• True

• False

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________ breaks down land as it carries away weathered material.

• Weathering

• Erosion

The Hawaiian Islands are an example of a ____________ process.

• destructive

• constructive

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The hot spot volcanoes that are the Hawaiian Islands formed through _____________ processes of repeated lava outflows building up layer upon layer until an entire island resulted.

• destructive

• constructive

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Below are examples of __________ processes: 1. Erosion 2. Earthquakes 3. Volcanoes 4. Organism impact

• destructive

• constructive

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