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Rain washing away soil from a hillside

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

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The process that breaks down rocks and other materials on Earth's surface is called

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition
• Decomposition

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Your teacher filled a box with sand. She put a fan at one end and turned the fan on. The sand was blown to the opposite side of the box and collected at that side. What processes was the teacher demonstrating?

• Weathering and erosion
• Weathering and deposition
• Erosion and deposition
• Chemical and mechanical weathering

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What is weathering?

• a type of climate
• the movement of rock pieces from one place to another
• the breaking down of rock into smaller pieces
• a force that pulls pieces of rock downhill

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What does this mean:The movement of sediments

• erosion

• plate tectonics

• deposition

• weathering

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The Grand Canyon is more than 400 km long and in some places almost 2 km deep. Which model best represents the main process that formed the Grand Canyon? (5.7B)

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The process of water or wind carrying away top loose soil is called ____________

• Flowing away

• Blowing away

• erosion

• conservation

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Which of the following is a slow change to Earth's surface?

• Flood
• Weathering
• Tornado
• Earthquake

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Acid rain dissolving undergroud limestone.

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

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Wind, water, and ice are involved in both weathering and erosion. However, weathering and erosion are two different processes. Which sentence below states a difference between weathering and erosion?

• Erosion moves rocks to a new location.

• Weathering moves rocks from place to place.

• Erosion breaks down rocks but doesn't move them.

• Weathering moves rocks without breaking them down.

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