What is the correct sequence?

Deposition, Erosion, Weathering

Erosion, Deposition, Weathering

Erosion, Weathering, Deposition

How do plants most commonly break large rocks into smaller pieces?

Plant roots grow into cracks in rocks.

Seeds from plants fall onto rocks and release acidic compounds.

Stems of plants surround and squeeze rocks.

Plant protects surrounding rocks from extreme temperatures.

What is the difference between weathering and erosion?

Weathering breaks down rocks, and erosion carries the broken pieces away.

Erosion breaks down the rocks, and weathering carries the broken pieces away.

Erosion carries broken pieces away, and weathering builds the pieces back up into another land mass.

Weathering carries broken pieces away, and erosion builds the pieces back up into another land mass.

What is mechanical weathering?

Process through which rocks are physically broken into smaller pieces.

Rocks are broken down through chemical changes.

Rocks are worn away from acid in plant roots.

Rocks broken down by machinery.

Which of the following is an example of mechanical weathering?

Acidic groundwater dissolving limestone

How is mechanical weathering different from chemical weathering?

Chemical weathering changes the chemical composition of rocks; mechanical weathering does not.

Chemical weathering happens over much shorter time frame than mechanical weathering.

Chemical weathering occurs only in tropical climates; mechanical weathering occurs only in cool climates.

Chemical weathering occurs only in the mountains; mechanical weathering occurs only on flat land.

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The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another.

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

Weathering

Erosion

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Weathering and erosion are the same thing.

True

False

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Wind blowing sand from one location to another is called

Weathering

Erosion

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A mudslide flowing down a steep hill is called?

Weathering

Erosion

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The process of slowly breaking rocks into smaller pieces is called

weathering

erosion

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Weathering & Erosion

The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another.

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

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

Weathering and erosion are the same thing.

Wind blowing sand from one location to another is called

A mudslide flowing down a steep hill is called?

The process of slowly breaking rocks into smaller pieces is called

Flood water pounding against a canyon wall and wearing it down

What is the correct sequence?

Sediments piling up at the bottom of a hill or at the bottom of the ocean floor are examples of

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