GMAS Review: Constructive and Destructive Forces

Processes that create landforms (deposition, landslides, volcanic eruptions, floods)

• Destructive

• Constructive

• Construction

• Deposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Processes that destroy landforms (weathering, erosion, landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods)

• Construction

• Destroying

• Constructive

• Destructive

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A term used to describe processes that break down rocks at or near the surface of the earth.

• erosion

• decaying

• weathering

• chemical changes

Weathering can be caused by all the following except _________.

• Water

• Plants (roots break a part rocks)

• Temperature changes (water freezes in cracks of rocks)

• The sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The movement of sediments and soil by wind, water, ice, and gravity.

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Precipitation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The dropping, or depositing, of sediments by water, wind, or ice.

• erosion

• weathering

• deposition

• constructive processes

True or False: Human Activity can affect the land and oceans of Earth.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4