Weathering, Erosion and Depostion

Weathering is the process of -

• Moving sediment from one place to another

• Dropping or leaving sediment in a location

• Breaking down rocks into sediment

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What is erosion?

• The movement of sediment

• The breaking of sediment

• The dropping of sediment

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Water carrying sediment down a hill is an example of...

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

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Which of these is an example of erosion?

• Light shinning onto a mountain

• Rain breaking down rock

• Wind blowing away sediment

• All of the above

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What is an enormous mass of ice moving over land?

• Ice wedging
• Glacier
• Iceberg
• Dune

The process by which small pieces of rocks and soil are carried away to new locations is called...

• deposition
• erosion
• weathering
• faults

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What is likely to cause cracks on the sidewalk?

• Repeated freezing and thawing of water
• Tree roots or plant roots growing bigger
• Both and A and B
• Neither A or B 

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How does freezing water cause the weathering of rocks?  The freezing water—

• keeps the rocks in place
• makes the rocks last longer
• expands cracks and breaks rocks
• causes rocks to fall in landslides

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Mounds of wind-deposited sand in deserts and on shorelines are

• sea arches
• sea stacks
• dunes
• cliffs

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The extremely slow (the slowest) mass movement of material down a slope is called

• mudslides
• creep
• mudflow
• avalanche

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