Erosion, Weathering, and Deposition

What is Erosion?

• Moving of sediment from one place to another

• When rocks break apart into sediments

• Dropping of sediment in a new place

What is deposition

• Moving of sediment from one place to another

• When rocks break apart into sediments

• Dropping of sediment in a new place

What is weathering

• Moving of sediment from one place to another

• When rocks break apart into sediments

• Dropping of sediment in a new place

What is a sediment?

• Smaller parts of a rock

• Larger parts of a rock

• When a rock stays the same

• When a rock gets lost

Click each answer that can cause weathering

• Wind

• Living things

• Water

• Ice

• Plants

Click each answer that can cause erosion

• Wind

• Living things

• Water

• Gravity

• Plants

Which is an example of depositon

• When it rains

• A new plant grows

• Moving water can deposit pebbles and sand downstream

Weathering, erosion, and deposition can

• Shape and change the land

• Keep the land the same

• Make only certain land change

Weathering can happen at different rates

• True

• False

How does a crack in the sidewalk form?

• Too many people walked on it

• The concrete expanded and contracted over time

• Nobody/nothing went on it