Minerals, weathering, erosion and Types of rocks

The process by which water, ice, wind or gravity moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another.

• weathering

• deposition

• erosion

• chemical weathering

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

This type of weathering occurs when rock is physically broken down into smaller pieces of rock.

• Mechanical weather

• Chemical weathering

• Mechanical erosion

• deposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is sediment?

• the process of rocks being broken down and carried away

• the top layer of the soil

• bits of rock and sand caused by the weathering of rocks

• decaying plant or animal material

The part of the erosion process in which sediment travels to a new location and is laid down or dropped off

• chemical weathering

• mechanical weathering

• erosion

• deposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the major cause of weathering and erosion?

• ice

• Moving water

• glaciers

• wind

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The color of a mineral in powder form is called the mineral's

• Luster

• streak

• hardness

• color

How light reflects off of a mineral is called the mineral's

• Color

• streak

• hardness

• luster

igneous rock formed from lava that erupted onto Earth's surface

• extrusive

• intrusive

• clastic

• biogenic

igneous rock that formed when magma hardened beneath the surface of Earth

• extrusive

• intrusive

• clastic

• biogenic

the process that presses sediments together

• deposition

• erosion

• compaction

• cementation