Social Studies chapters 1.2, 1.3

What is "weathering"?

• a process that breaks down rocks into tiny pieces

• a process in which water, ice, or wind remove small

  pieces of rock and move them somewhere else

• the

  process of dropping eroded material

• the process of tiny rocks coming together and forming bigger rocks

What is "erosion"?

• a process that breaks down rocks into tiny pieces

• a process in which water, ice, or wind remove small

  pieces of rock and move them somewhere else

• the

  process of dropping eroded material

• the process of tiny rocks coming together and forming bigger rocks

What is "deposition"?

• a process that breaks down rocks into tiny pieces

• a process in which water, ice, or wind remove small

  pieces of rock and move them somewhere else

• the

  process of dropping eroded material

• the process of tiny rocks coming together and forming bigger rocks

What is the correct key word for: "a process that breaks down rocks into tiny pieces"?

• deposition

• weathering

• erosion

• plate techtonics

What is the correct key word for: "a process in which water, ice, or wind removes small pieces of rock and moves them somewhere else"?

• deposition

• weathering

• erosion

• plate techtonics

What is the correct key word for: "the process of dropping eroded material"?

• deposition

• weathering

• erosion

• plate techtonics

What is the correct keyword for: "a process involving huge blocks of Earth's

crust and upper mantle"?

• Earthquakes

• Plate Tectonics

• Ring of Fire

• Volcanoes

What is the correct keyword for: "When plates slide against each other. They often occur at seams in the Earth's crust called faults"?

• Earthquakes

• Plate Tectonics

• Ring of Fire

• Volcanoes

What is the correct keyword for: "the chain of volcanoes forming a semicircle around the eastern, northern, and western edges of

the Pacific Ocean"?

• Earthquakes

• Plate Tectonics

• Ring of Fire

• Volcanoes

What is the correct keyword for: "when plate movement forces oceanic

crust beneath continental crust, steam and heat are

released, melting the rocks above"?

• Earthquakes

• Plate Tectonics

• Ring of Fire

• Volcanoes