3.7B & 5.7B Changes to Earth (Rapid and Slow) Vocabulary

features on the earth's surface, changed by wind, water, and ice.

• landforms

• weathering

• erosion

• sediments

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

wind, water and ice

• landforms

• 3 agents of change

• deposition

• sediments

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

the breaking down of rock into sediment by wind, water or ice

• sand dune

• depositon

• erosion

• weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

the moving of sediment by wind, water or ice

• weathering

• erosion

• depositon

• sediments

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

the dropping off of sediment in a new location after being moved or eroded by wind, water or ice

• deposiotion

• landforms

• 3 agents of change

• sediments

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

tiny pieces of rock and other inorganic matter, loose materials such as grain and rock fragments, ex: sand, mud, silt, sea shells

• ice/frost wedging

• sand dune

• sediments

• delta

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

weathering caused when water enters cracks in the rocks, freezes, expands and breaks rocks.

• sand dune

• delta

• canyon

• ice/frost wedging

hills formed by the wind blowing and depositing sand

• sand dune

• ice/frost wedging

• sediments

• canyon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

a triangle shaped landform created by water depositing sediments at the mouth of a river

• sand dune

• delta

• canyon

• U-shaped valley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

a long deep narrow gorge in the surface of the earth formed by erosion of sediments by water in a flowing river

• U-shaped valley

• delta

• canyon

• glacier

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2