lesson 3 earths surface 5/6

Refers to the mechanical and chemical processes that change Earth's surface over time.

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

• sediment

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The material formed from rocks broken down by weathering.

• deposition

• mass wasting

• erosion

• sediment

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The process of breaking down rock without changing the composition of the rock.

• Sediment

• Physical weathering

• Chemical weathering

• erosion

The process that changes the composition of rocks.

• Physical weathering

• Eerosion

• Chemical weathering

• Glacier

Geologists use this term to describe the moving of weathered material, or sediment, from one location to another.

• deposition

• mass wasting

• glacier

• erosion

The laying down or settling of eroded material.

• deposition

• mass wasting

• erosison

• weathering

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Downhill movement of large mass rocks or soil due to gravity.

• erosion

• deposition

• mass wasting

• glacier

Large masses of ice, formed by snow accumulation on land, and move slowly across Earth's surface.

• weathering

• glacier

• erosion

• deposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2