Processes that change Earth

This process is responsible for breaking large rocks down into small pieces of sand, dirt, and soil.

• Uplift

• Deposition

• Erosion and Weathering

• Convection

__________ are created when magma from inside the Earth seeps or erupts out from holes in the crust.

This process is responsible for taking eroded sand, soil, and dirt (also known as sediments), and placing them in new locations.

• Erosion

• Uplift

• Deposition

• Plate Tectonics

___________ is the process that lifts large land masses up to create mountains and high plateaus.

Earthquakes and volcanos are caused by the movement of __________

What do all of these words have in common? landslide, flood, earthquake, volcanic eruption

• They are all rapid processes
• They are all slow processes
• They are all landforms
• They are all water features

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Which of the following processes can be described as a "slow change to the Earth"?

• Erosion by wind

• Erosion by glaciers

• Creation of mountain ranges

• Erosion by landslide

Uplift is caused by which 2 of the following processes

• Erosion

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes

• Deposition

What most likely happened to the land in the picture?

• A volcanic eruption has built up the land
• Soil has been deposited on the sides of the river
• People have dug up the ground around the river
• The river has weathered and eroded the earth material away

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Which of the following best describes the amount of time that it took to form the Wasatch Mountains?

• Hundreds of years

• Thousands of years

• Millions of years

• Ten years