Destructive and Constructive Processes

When rocks and soil are worn down.

• Weathering 
• Erosion
• Deposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

When the material that is worn down is carried away by wind, moving water, ice, living beings or gravity.

• Weathering 
• Erosion
• Deposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When those materials stop moving and build up somewhere else.

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A hill of sand, made and shaped by wind.

• Sand Dune
• Delta
• Fault

An area of new land at the mouth of a river.

• Sand Dune
• Delta
• Fault

A shaking of Earth’s surface, caused by movement of rock in the crust.

• Earthquake
• Volcano
• Tsunami

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A crack in Earth’s crust.

• Earthquake
• Fault 
• Jetty

A mountain that forms as molten rock flows through a crack into Earth’s surface.

• Volcano
• Earthquake
• Hill
• Sand Dune

A scientist who studies earthquakes.

• Seismologist
• Paleontologist
• Orthopedist
• Pediatrician

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Records movement in Earth’s crust.

• Seismograph
• Telegraph
• Monograph