What is the process of moving sediments from location to another?

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Compaction

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Which of these is an example of erosion?

• Light shinning onto a mountain

• Rain breaking down rock

• Wind blowing away sediment

• All of the above

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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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Which agents  break down earth materials?

• wind only
• earthquakes and gravity
• ice and 007
• wind, water, and ice

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What is an enormous mass of ice moving over land?

• Ice wedging
• Glacier
• Iceberg
• Dune

Rain washing away soil from a hillside

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

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Wind blowing sand from one location to another

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

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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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An avalanche is an example of which process?

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition
• Volcanic Eruption

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The process that breaks down rocks and other materials on Earth's surface is called

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition
• Decomposition

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