Minerals, Rocks, Soil, and Erosion

What is erosion?

• Earth materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind or water.

• When wind and water move.

• Air moving garbage around the Earth.

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What is erosion?

• Wind, air, and rain breaking down the Earth.

• Pieces of the Earth are broken down by weathering, then carried away

• Pieces of Earth being placed in certain areas.

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What is deposition?

• Depositing money in the bank.

• Pieces of Earth are eroded, and deposited somewhere else.

• Carrying away of minerals.

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Geology is the study of

• Earth

• lava

• insects

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The thin, solid, and outermost layer of the Earth is called the

• inner core

• outer core

• crust

Pangea is

• The supercontinent that broke apart 175 million years ago.

• The process by which rocks change and form new rocks

• a new language

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What are substances that occur naturally and can be found as a single element (like gold or copper).

• rocks

• natural resources

• magma

Boulders are larger than pebbles.....true or false?

• true

• false

Fossils are

• the remains or impressions of plants or animals in stone

• animal bones

• old rocks

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When chemical reactions cause the erosion of a rock, it has been

• chemically weathered

• mechanically weathered

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