Rock Cycle and Weathering

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

• Weathering
• Erosion

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When sediment is deposited somewhere new

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

Which is an example of Erosion?

• Sand being carried away from a beach by waves.

• Roots of a tree breaking apart a rock
• water in a river smoothing down rocks.

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This is the movement of sediment by water ice ,gravity, and wind.

• glacier

• erosion

• water cycle

• precipitation

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How does freezing water cause the weathering of rocks?  The freezing water—

• keeps the rocks in place
• makes the rocks last longer
• expands cracks and breaks rocks
• causes rocks to fall in landslides

Which statement is NOT and example of chemical weathering?

• acidic water moving through rocks reacts with the minerals

• frost wedging

• iron-containing rocks react with water and oxygen in environment

• lichens, the soil formers, slowly eat away the surface of rocks

_ is molten rock that is below Earth's surface.

• Lava

• Magma

• Sediment

• Rock

What Are The Three Main Types Of Rocks?

• Igneous, Depository, Metamorphic

• Depository, Igneous, Sedimentary

• Metamorphic, Igneous, Depository

• Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary

When molten (melted) rock cools and becomes a solid, a _____ rock forms.

• Igneous         

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

• Mineral

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Fossils are more likely to form in which type of rock?

• Sedimentary rocks .  

• Metamorphic rocks

• Igneous rocks

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