Shaping Earth's Crust Quiz #2

When water wears away the bank of a river from below causing a cliff overhang that eventually breaks off.

• fetch

• mass wasting

• hydraulic action

• solution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The pulling and rolling of large rocks by water and wind.

• swash

• traction

• backwash

• oxbow

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The distance the wind causes a wave to travel

• fetch

• swash

• mile

• backwash

Erosion causes bends of a river to meet, eventrually sealing off the bends and forming lakes

• oxbow

• swash

• puddle

• lake

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

When a wave breaks against the shore, water rushes up on the beach and deposits sediments.

• Tooth Fairy

• traction

• fetch

• swash

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

A type of erosion that involves gravity and moving sediment and rock from a higher eleation to a lower elevation

• fetch

• mass wasting

• hydraulic action

• rolling rocks

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The part of the wave that rushes water back into the ocean carrying the sediment away

• backwash

• undercurrent

• swash

• fetch

Minerals in rock are dissolved by acids in the water

• mixture

• mass wasting

• solution

• attrition

When backwash is stronger than swash it is a _________wave.

• constructive

• destructive

When swash is stronger than backwash it is a ________wave

• constructive

• destructive