The Amazing Earth: Past, Present, Future Review for Test

The movement of weathered rock by wind, water, ice, or gravity is ...

• Explosion

• Erosion

• Weathering

• experiment

What is solid material that is moved and deposited in a new location is called ?

• garbage

• sediment

• glass

• none of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

_____________________ is the process by which rock is broken down by physical actions. 

• Chemical Weathering

• Physical Weathering

• Erosion

_____________________ is the process by which rock is broken down by chemical actions. 

• Chemical Weathering

• Physical Weathering

• Erosion

What causes rocks to erode?

• People hitting them with hammers

• Constant exposure to the sun

• Being exposed to wind, rain, heat, ice, or waves,

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What formed this valley?

• river

• man-made

• wind

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What formed this canyon?

• dynamite

• wind

• river

• man-made

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Why did the rock crack?

• The plant roots eroded the rock.

• The tree roots weathered the rock.

• The tree roots karate chopped the rock.

• The rock weathered the tree root.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Mountain ranges, volcanoes, and earthquakes occur in certain areas

due to tectonic plates which are large, moving pieces of solid rock.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Erosion is the movement of weathered rock by...

• water

• wind

• gravity

• all of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2