Flocabulary: Weathering & Erosion

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

Glaciers shape and carve away the land beneath them and can drastically reshape the landscape over hundreds or even thousands of years.

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

True or False: Weathering and erosion are different names for the same process.

• True

• False

The two types of weathering are

• terrestrial and aquatic.

• wind and precipitation.

• mechanical and chemical.

• physical and metaphysical.

Which of these is an example of weathering?

• A landslide moving debris down the side of a mountain

• A large rock cracking into many smaller pieces around a tree root

• Wind blowing sand from one side of a beach to the other

• Glaciers slowly carrying bits of rock along the ground

True or False: Weathering always happens slowly, over many thousands of years.

• True

• False

Mechanical weathering does NOT change the _____________ of the rock.

• shape

• size

• composition

True or False: Chemical weathering changes the composition of the rock.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

When a weathered rock is placed somewhere new, it's called

• Deposition

• Weathering

• Rain

• Glacier