Landforms Shaped by Water and Wind / Mass Wasting and Glacier

Mass wasting is the downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil because of the pull of gravity.

• False

• True

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

There are two important parts from mass wasting:

• Gravity is the dominant cause of movement

• Is the rapid downhill movement of soil

• Material moves in bulk as a large mass

• Chemical and physical Weathering

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

(a)   is the rapid downhill movement of soil, loose rocks, and boulders.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Rockfall, slump, and young streams examples of mass wasting.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Loess is a pile of windblown sand.

• False

• True

Are water deposition along streams, depositions along coastlines, and groundwater deposition part of Water Deposition.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Why do materials on a slope often move downhill?

• Water

• Wind

• Weathering

• Gravity

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NGSS.MS-PS2-5

In a mass wasting event, material moves in bulk, and gravity is the dominant cause of that movement.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Longshore current is a current that flows parallel to the shoreline.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Coastal Erosion also occurs when the cutting action of waves along rocky shores forms sea cliffs, sea stacks, and sea arches.

• False

• True

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2