Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition

Rain washing away soil from a hillside

• Weathering
• Erosion

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Water getting into cracks, freezing, and breaking the rocks or pavement apart

• Weathering
• Erosion

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Wind blowing sand from one location to another

• Weathering
• Erosion

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What is sediment?

• the process of rocks being broken down and carried away
• bits of rock and sand caused by the weathering of rocks
• the top layer of the soil
• decaying plant or animal material 

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The process by which water, ice, wind or gravity moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another.

• weathering
• erosion
• deposition
• dumptruck

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Waves dropping sand on the beach is an example of what?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Compaction

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Particles of rock, sand, soil, and plant-

• erosion

• sediment

• weathering

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

• keeps the rocks in place
• makes the rocks last longer
• expands cracks and breaks rocks
• causes rocks to fall in landslides

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Glaciers shape and carve away the land beneath them and can drastically reshape the landscape over hundreds or even thousands of years.

• True
• False

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Milo is orange and has stripes ~

• True

• False