Erosion

Choose TWO descriptions below that represent Erosion.

• Rain washing away dirt from a hillside

• Water getting in cracks of rocks, freezing, and breaking them

• Wind hitting the top of a mountain for thousands of years creating arches.

• Waves moving sand from one place to another

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which agent of erosion can only deposit small materials such as sand?

• ice

• wind

• water

• gravity

Which agent of erosion could cause these rocks to have a smooth, round appearance such as those in the picture?

• ice

• wind

• water

• gravity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which TWO processes take material away from land forms on the surface of the earth?

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

• sediments

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Sand and small pebbles are examples of

• deposition

• agents

• exfoliation

• sediments

What is one mass movement that occurs quickly from weathering, erosion, and deposition?

• landslides or mudslide

• mountain building

• creeps

• formation of caves

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is the best evidence that erosion has occurred?

• a bunch of fossils are dug up in limestone

• a grassy pasture with rich soil

• sediments found on a sandbar of a river

• a layer of basalt found on the ocean floor

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the main agent that causes landslides, mudflows, slumps, and creeps to occur?

• water

• gravity

• ice

• wind

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When a glacier moves, it picks up and carries the rocks with it. These rocks are weathered by:

• abrasion

• exfoliation

• thermal expansion

• hydrolysis

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2