ES-6 Rock Cycle

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

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Compaction

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

What is sediment?

• the process of rocks being broken down and carried away

• bits of rock, sand, and silt caused by the weathering of rocks

• the top layer of the soil

• decaying plant or animal material 

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

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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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

Which agents  break down earth materials?

• wind only

• earthquakes and gravity

• ice and 007

• wind, water, and ice

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

Rain washing away soil from a hillside

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Wind blowing sand from one location to another

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

What is an enormous mass of ice moving over land?

• Ice wedging

• Glacier

• Iceberg

• Dune

How do sandy beaches form?

• Waves pounding pebbles int smaller and smaller peices

• Wind eroding pebbles into smaller pieces

• Water freezing and thawing the cracks of pebbles

• Rain wearing away rocks into smaller and smaller pieces

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

How do plants in the soil affect how fast erosion happens?

• It doesn't affect erosion.

• It slows down erosion.

• It speeds up erosion.

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

How do plants weather rocks?

• during photosynthesis

• when roots grow into cracks of rocks and expand the rock

• when the plant moves water from the roots to the leaves

• Plants don't weather rocks

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2