Constructive Forces & Destructive Forces

The wearing away of rocks and soil is ?

• erosion
• weathering
• deposition
• biological weathering

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What causes erosion?

• ice and snow
• wind and ice
• weathering and deposition
• wind, water and other natural causes

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Name two types of land forms.

• mountains and dirt
• mountains and canyons
• canyons and dirt
• dirt and rocks

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What does constructive force mean?

• destroying land forms
• land forms from volcanoes
• creating new land forms by sediment
• creating rocks and dirt

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What is a major destructive force?

• dirt
• food
• volcanoes
• the sun

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When tectonic plates shift what happens?

• volcanoes erupt spewing lava
• it causes an earthqake
• hurricaines
• tornadoes

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A shallow stream over time becomes a river valley. What is this process called?

• weathering
• biological weathering
• deposition
• erosion

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What type of process most likely created the mountain chain seen here?

• Volcanic eruptions created the mountains over millions of years.

• Tectonic plates pushed together forcing one plate under the other and then pushing the land upward.

• Earthquakes broke the earth into pieces and parts of it fell into cracks between faults.

• A river flowed through the land and created the valleys between the mountains making them appear taller.

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A seismograph tells us what information about an earthquake?

• How deep within the earth the earthquake occurred.

• How far a tsunami will travel

• How much damage the earthquake caused

• How strong the earthquake is

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What are the primary purposes for the use of dams?

• To prevent droughts and reverse the flow of a river.

• To keep unwanted marine organisms from moving down stream.

• To control floodwaters and store water for people to use.

• To make lakes so that people have a place to go fish.

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