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The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another.

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition
• Crop Rotation

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What is erosion?

• The process by which
  water, ice, wind or gravity
  moves fragments of rock
  and soil.
• The process by which
  water, ice, wind or gravity
  deposit rock sediments
  and soil in a new place.
• The breaking down of
  Earth’s crust into smaller
  and smaller pieces.

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Wind blasting sand at rock and carving out arches

• Weathering
• Erosion

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the weathering of rocks caused by wind blowing sand into it over time.

• gravity

• frost wedging

• abrasion

• tree root wedging

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Water getting into cracks, freezing, and breaking the rocks or pavement apart

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

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This landform is formed by

• water erosion

• wind erosion and deposition

• glaciers

• weathering

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This landform is formed by

• water erosion

• wind erosion and deposition

• glaciers

• weathering

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What type of weathering is this?

• chemical

• biological

• physical/mechanical

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Which of the following is a process that creates the sediments that form sedimentary rock?

• Wind, water, and ice breaking rock into smaller pieces

• Heat from the earth melting rock below the surface

• Volcanoes putting out lava that cools to form new rock

• Continents pushing together to fold layers of rock

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Rocks near the ocean get broken into smaller pieces. What causes this change to these rocks?

• Leaves falling from trees

• Clouds forming in the sky

• Water crashing against the rocks

• Salt dissolving in the water

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