Surface Features Construction and Destruction

What are the main causes of weathering?

• Shape and landscape of the earth

• Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and volcanoes

• Rain, ice, water, and gravity

• Pieces of earth depositing somewhere else

What is deposition?

• Pieces of earth moving and depositing somewhere else

• Pieces of earth broken down by weathering

• When soil is washed away

• Rain, freezing temperatures, gravity, and wind

What is erosion?

• Water, wind, gravity, and freezing temperatures

• Pieces of earth broken down by weathering

• Sand created from ocean waves pounding on rocks

• Deposited materials that create new landforms

What do we call a slowly moving mass of ice?

• Frozen water

• Mountain

• Glacier

• Ice Cream

How does a crack form in the sidewalk?

• When heat causes it to expand and cold causes it to contract

• Particles are blown by the wind over time

• Ocean waves

• Mud slide

Wind carries sand particles close to the surface and they hit the bottom of the rock more than the top. What does this cause?

• A crack in the sidewalk

• A mushroom rock

• Deposition

• Tornado

Why does weathering affect different materials differently?

• Small pieces of the earth causes little damage

• Properties of rock can be hard or soft

• Sun overheats surfaces

• Sometimes it happens fast and sometimes slowly

What does a seismograph do during an earthquake?

• It measures the width of the crack in the surface

• It measures the height

• It measures the destruction

• It measures the size or intensity

Name 3 types of natural disasters.

• Volcanoes

• Earthquakes

• Fire

• Tsunamis

What building material is best when near a volcano?

• Wood

• Stone

• Metal

• None of these