Weathering

The process that breaks down rocks and other materials on Earth's surface is called

• Weathering
• Erosion

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What is an enormous mass of ice moving over land, causing weathering of rock and soil?

• A glacier
• An iceberg
• An ice wedge
• A sand dune

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How do plants weather rocks?

• Plants don't weather rocks.
• When roots grow into cracks of rocks and expand the rock breaks.
• When the plant moves water from the roots to the leaves, the rock breaks.

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What is the wearing away or breaking down of rocks called?

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Glaciers

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The process of slowly breaking rocks into smaller pieces is called

• weathering
• erosion

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The earth's surface is always

• the same
• changing
• smooth
• wet

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Glaciers are 

• the frosting on a cake
• formed by deltas
• large sheets of ice on land
• chunks of ice floating in the ocean

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What caused this rock to break apart?

• ice
• plant
• wind
• rain

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What was sand before it was broken down?

• soil
• rock
• water
• cement

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What made this landform known as a valley?

• Glacier
• hill
• deposition
• rocks

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