FOSS Soils Rocks and Landforms Investigation 1 - Test Review

Weathering can be caused by sandblasting. Choose the true statements below.

• Sandblasting is physical weathering.

• Sandblasting is chemical weathering.

• Sandblasting is an example of abrasion.

• Sandblasting happens in dry and windy conditions.

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

What is likely to be found in soil?

• pebbles

• gravel

• silt/clay

• sand

• humus

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Select all the properties of soil that are important to know about when planting.

• How well water drains through the soil

• The amount of humus in the soil

• The age of the soil

• The amount of clay in the soil

• The weight of the soil

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which type of weathering most likely caused the rock shapes?

• Tree roots

• Acid rain

• Freezing and thawing

• Sand blown by wind

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What likely caused the rock to split?

• Chemicals in the rain made a tiny crack bigger.

• Tree roots grew from a seed in a crack and split the rock.

• Freezing and thawing of rain and snow in a crack split the rock.

• Wind blew into a tiny crack and made it bigger.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which location most likely has soil with a lot of humus?

• Forest

• Desert

• Mountain

• Beach

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What properties would you use to compare the two soils?

• Texture

• Size of earth material

• Number of layers

• The amount of humus

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Any natural resource that makes up Earth, including soil and water is Earth material.

• True

• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

The process in which two or more substances combine to make a new substance is a ________ __________.

• physical reaction

• chemical reaction

• temperature change

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

When the volume of a substance increases or gets bigger, the substance __________.

• evaporates

• contracts

• expands