Destructive Forces

Name two types of landforms.

• mountains and dirt

• mountains and canyons

• dirt and rocks

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What is weathering?

• a type of climate

• the breaking down of rock into smaller pieces

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What causes erosion?

• ice and snow

• wind and ice

• wind, water and other natural causes

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What is sediment?

• sand, soil, rocks, dirt

• snow and ice

• dirt

• rain

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Which of these is a major destructive force?

• dirt

• food

• volcanoes

• the sun

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When tectonic plates shift what happens?

• erosion

• it causes an earthqake

• tornadoes

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Which process causes slow changes to the Earth's surface?

• Earthquake

• Volcano

• Weathering

• Landslide

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A shallow stream over time becomes a river valley. What is this process called?

• flooding

• erosion

• deposition

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The wearing away of rocks and soil is called...

• constructive processes

• weathering

• deposition

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