4th Weathering Erosion and Deposition

Deposition from ice can cause slow changes to Earth’s surface. Identify which is an example of deposition from ice.

• Ice breaks apart rocks.

• Water carries away pieces of floating ice.

• Wind carries away pieces of rock and ice.

• Glaciers drop rocks and sediment as they melt.

Identify the sentence that tells how weathering from ice causes slow changes to Earth’s surface.

• A glacier deposits rocks as it moves.

• A glacier melts, leaving behind rocks.

• A glacier carries away rocks as it moves.

• A glacier rubs against rocks as it moves.

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The movement of water may have the effect of leaving a solid material behind. Identify which of the following is an example of the slow change to Earth’s surface caused by deposition from water.

• a sand dune

• a ditch

• a river delta

• smoothing of rocks in a river

What is the difference between weathering and erosion?

• My team or I can explain the difference.

• My team or I have no idea

As a glacier moves down the mountain, it carries with it rocks and other matter. Identify what this slow change to Earth’s surface is called.

• erosion from ice

• erosion from water

• deposition from ice

• deposition from water

Deposition from wind is one cause of slow changes to Earth’s surface. Which is an example of deposition from wind?

• a canyon

• sand dunes

• a river delta

• a valley

Jorge performs an investigation in the lab to show the effects of slow changes to Earth’s surface. He represents land with a clump of sand and blows through a straw directly onto the clump of sand. What is he trying to investigate?

• how wind erosion changes Earth’s surface

• how water erosion changes Earth’s surface

• how deposition from wind changes Earth’s surface

• how deposition from water changes Earth’s surface

Jorge now performs the same investigation in the lab to show the effects of slow changes to Earth’s surface. But now he drops water onto a clump of sand. What is he trying to investigate?

• how wind erosion changes Earth’s surface

• how water weathering and erosion changes Earth's surface

• how ice deposition changes Earth's surface

• how wind deposition changes Earth's surface

Moving water that cuts away at rock is an example of rock being weathered.

• False; weathering is the process of rocks being deposited into a new place.

• True; weathering is the process of rocks being moved away from one area to another.

• True; weathering is the process of rocks being cut down or broken apart

• False, none of these statements are correct.

When water gets into the cracks in rocks, freezes, melts, and freezes again, it is an example of....

• deposition

• dissolving

• erosion

• weathering