Weathering and Erosion

The breakdown of materials in the Earth's crust into sediment is called:

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

• Delta

The wearing away of rocks and soil by wind, water, or glaciers is called:

• deposition

• drainage basin

• erosion

• weathering

Bits of broken rock that are carried away by wind, streams, or glaciers is:

• weathering

• deposition

• pebbles

• sediment

Which word means the process by which the earth's surface is broken down into smaller pieces?

• erosion

• weathering

• deposition

What happens after the pieces of rock are broken down through weathering, and those pieces are moved?

• erosion

• weathering

• deposition

What happens after the pieces are carried by erosion, and they are dropped somewhere else?

• erosion

• weathering

• deposition

What is the process that picks up and moves weathered rocks?

• Erosion
• Landslide
• Weathering

What is an enormous mass of ice moving over land, causing weathering of rock and soil?

• A glacier
• An iceberg
• An ice wedge
• A sand dune

Weathering and erosion are the same thing.

• True
• False

Which is an example of Erosion?

• Sand being pulled away from a beach by waves.
• Roots of a tree breaking apart a rock
• water in a river smoothing down rocks.