8.ESS.3 Review

Runoff is

• natural source of supply or support

• moving water that carries particles with it

• the process of restoring land damaged by mining

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Desertification is

• the process of restoring land damaged by mining

• large scale cutting or burning of forests

• development of desertlike conditions due to human activities or climate change

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Reforestation is

• natural source of supply or support

• large scale cutting and/or burning of forests

• planting trees to replace trees that have been cut or burned down

Acid precipitation is

• rain or snow that has a lower pH than that of normal rainwater

• scale that ranks levels of ozone and other air pollutants

• type of pollution that can be identified from a single source

Deforestation is

• large-scale cutting and/or burning of forests

• rise of Earth's average surface temperature during the past 100 years

• a gas in the atmosphere that absorbs Earth's outgoing infrared radiation

What is erosion?

• The movement of sediment

• The breaking of sediment

• The dropping of sediment

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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

Rain washing away soil from a hillside

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

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