7.2B Vocabulary Quiz Review

Process in which earth materials settle out of a moving fluid (air or water) and are added to a landform or land mass, like a beach or shoreline or the mouth of a river

• Weathering

• Sediment

• Deposition

• Longshore Current

The layer of gas (i.e. air) that surrounds the Earth.

• Atmosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Lithosphere

• Biosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

the movement of earth material across the Earth's surface by water, wind, ice, or gravity.

• Weathering

• Longshore Current

• Atmosphere

• Transport

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

the transportation of sediments along a coast parallel to the shoreline, in the longshore current

• Erosion

• Longshore current

• Longshore Drift

• Catastrophic change

The parts of Earth that are water. The hydrosphere can be found within the lithosphere (e.g. lakes, rivers, oceans), as well as within the atmosphere (water vapor that is part of the water cycle).

• Hydrosphere

• Lithosphere

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Include the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere

• Weathering

• Earth System

• Atmosphere

• Gradual Change

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Things that happen to the Earth’s surface that cause changes, including weathering and transport.

• Weathering

• Earth System

• Earth Material

• Surface Process

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The crust and solid outermost layer of the Earth, including rocks

• Hydrosphere

• Lithosphere

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Changes that may be continuously occurring but are so small that they are barely noticed over short time scales, but could be measured/observed over a very long time scale.

• Surface Process

• Gradual Change

• Catastrophic Change

• Earth Material

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

the action of surfaces processes (such as flowing water or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved materials from one location on the Earth’s crust, and then transports it to another location

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Surface Process

• Earth Material