5th grade earth features

Which process best describes the formation of a delta.

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

What agent of change causes a sand dune?

• Water

• Wind

• Ice

Nature’s change agents have been both _____________and _____________by building up and carving Earth’s surface for billions of years, creating slow and rapid changes to landforms that resulted in an amazing diversity of landscapes.

• positive and negative

• great and small

• constructive and destructive

• natural and manmade

Constructive processes build surface features. Several forces have been in action to alter the landscape of Earth for billions of years. Some are _________processes like the deposition of soil and the gradual uplifting of blocks of land along fault zones.

• slow

• rapid

River deltas, beaches, dunes, sandbars, floodplains, Glacial moraines, and Alluvial fans are all examples of soil deposition and

• Constructive processes.

• Destructive processes.

Can a process that alters the Earth’s surface be both destructive and constructive, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?

• True

• False

________ breaks down land as it carries away weathered material.

• Weathering

• Erosion

The Hawaiian Islands are an example of a ____________ process.

• destructive

• constructive

Below are examples of __________ processes: 1. Erosion 2. Earthquakes 3. Volcanoes 4. Organism impact

• destructive

• constructive

The process of breaking up rocks on Earth's surface is known as what?

• sediment

• erosion

• weathering

• deposition