Y8 Rivers, sea and ice

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What word do we use to describe the processes in which rocks are attacked by different kinds of weather?

• Frost bite

• Weathering

• Sun burn

• Water damage

What is the name given to the kind of weathering caused by water freezing in the cracks of rocks?

• Erosion

• Fracking

• Onion skin

• Freeze thaw

Some weathering results in something called 'onion skin' on rocks.

What is this caused by?

• Humans

• Changes in temperature - from hot to cold

• Water freezing

• Acid in the rain

Animals and plants are most likely to cause what kind of weathering?

• Chemical

• Biological

• Organic

• Air

What name do we give to the place where a river starts?

• source

• tribituary

• mouth

• delta

What word do we use to describe all the stones, rocks and sand carried by a river as it flows downstream?

• Weight

• Load

• Rubbish

• Debris

What is more likely to form on the inside bend of a river, where the water flows slowest?

• river cliff

• river beach

• waterfall

• gorge

What name is given to the single rock sticking up out of the sea?

• Arch

• Stack

• Cliff

• Erratic

Chemical weathering is more likely to happen faster in places that are both warm and have a lot of rain.

• True

• False