VST2 Review

Which of the following does not cause weathering?

• Plant’s roots

• Ice freezing in cracks

• Gravity pulling down a rock

• Temperature change breaking a rock

Which of the following will increase erosion?

• Planting trees and grass

• Sunlight

• Removing trees and grass

• Cold weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Weathering is the

• moving of rocks from one place to another

• temperature outside

• amount of sunlight a plant gets

• the process of rocks breaking apart

Which of the following is an effect of erosion?

• Rocks are broken into smaller pieces

• Rocks are moved from one place to another

• A sidewalk getting cracks

• A rock growing in size

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Bryce made a castle in his sandbox. That night it rained and the next morning the sandcastle was gone. What happened to the castle?

• The light of the sun eroded it

• Wind weathered it

• The rain eroded it

• The rain weathered it

Mrs. McHugh gave her students minerals to examine. The students make very different observations about the minerals. What could cause the observations to be so different?

• The minerals were different sizes

• The minerals were observed at different times

• The students were observing different minerals

Rocks are classified by

• Their color

• How big they are

• Their properties

• How they were formed

What type of rock is most likely to be found around a volcano?

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Magma

What type of rock is formed by cementing small pieces of rock and fossils cemented together?

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Magma

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The mineral property of breaking along a flat smooth surface is

• Hardness

• Luster

• Cleavage

• Streak