WEATHERING AND EROSION REVIEW

What caused these rocks to be shaped the way they are?

• Wind and Sunlight

• Wind and Waves

• Waves and Sunlight

• Waves and Gravity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Juan picks up a pebble from a river. The pebble is very smooth. Juan forms a hypothesis that the rock is smooth because it rubbed against other rocks and sand in the river. Which process did he explain?

• abrasion

• oxidation

• chemical weathering

• deposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

In places where there is loose sand and strong wind, the wind can pick up the sand and carry it. When the wind slows, it drops the sand. What is this process called?

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

• oxidation

Repeated freezing and unfreezing is an example of what type of weathering?

• chemical

• erosion

• physical

• deposition

Rain washing away soil from a hillside is an example of...

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

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This process moves bits of rock from one place to another.

• mechanical weathering

• chemical weathering

• erosion

• deposition

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This process involves changing the composition of the minerals that make up a rock.

• chemical weathering

• mechanical weathering

• erosion

• deposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Physical weathering is caused by all of these EXCEPT???

• abrasion (wearing away)

• burrowing of animals

• oxidation (forming rust)

• ice wedging

Erosion is caused by all of these EXCEPT???

• gravity

• ice

• water

• delta

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Landslides, mudslides, and creep are caused by.....

• wind

• gravity

• ice

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