Constructive and Deconstructive Forces

What is weathering?

• movement of rocks or dirt from one place to another by wind, water, ice, and gravity

• The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces called sediment

• rocks, dirt, or sediment dropped in a new place

• a landform, usually at the end of a river

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What are sand dunes?

• rocks, dirt, or sediment dropped in a new place

• a landform, usually at the end of a river

• a mound of sand formed by the wind, usually along the beach or in a desert

• movement of rocks or dirt from one place to another by wind, water, ice, and gravity

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What is erosion?

• movement of rocks or dirt from one place to another by wind, water, ice, and gravity

• rocks, dirt, or sediment dropped in a new place

• a landform, usually at the end of a river

• The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces called sediment

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What is deposition?

• rocks, dirt, or sediment dropped in a new place

• movement of rocks or dirt from one place to another by wind, water, ice, and gravity

• a landform, usually at the end of a river

• The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces called sediment

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What is a delta? 

• the shaking of the earth’s ground, or movement of tectonic plates

• rocks, dirt, or sediment dropped in a new place

• movement of rocks or dirt from one place to another by wind, water, ice, and gravity

• a landform, usually at the end of a river

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What is an earthquake?

• a landform, usually at the end of a river

• rocks, dirt, or sediment dropped in a new place

• the shaking of the earth’s ground, or movement of tectonic plates

• movement of rocks or dirt from one place to another by wind, water, ice, and gravity

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What do you call the study of earthquakes?

• Anatomy

• Seismology

• Anthropology

• Ecology

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Choose 3 human interventions that are used to prevent destructive forces.

• Build dams

• Cut trees down

• Build sea walls

• Storm drains

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What is a constructive force?

• those that work to build or create new formations

• those that combine new formations

• destroy or tear down existing formations

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What is a deconstructive force?

• those that work to build or create new formations

• those that combine new formations

• destroy or tear down existing formations