Natural Disasters and Geoscience Processes

Which of the following land features would take the largest amount of time to change?

• location of continents
• shape of volcano
• position of sand dunes
• landslides

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

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Which of the following is a large scale geoscience process?

• landslides
• tectonic plate movement
• river erosion
• formation of caves

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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Which of the following is the best example of a change to Earth’s surface caused by a usually slow process that is interrupted by a rapid event?

• An earthquake resulting from tectonic plate movement

• The formation of a delta at the mouth of a river

• The creation of sediments by breaking down rocks

• A flooding of wetlands caused by a hurricane’s storm surge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which of these geoscience process has the largest time scale?

• tornado

• landslide

• flash flood

• delta formation

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

One of these does not describe a tectonic plate boundary

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• landslide

Which type of plate boundary creates mountains

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• landslide

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Natural process that happen on Earth

• slow processes

• historic processes

• landmarks

• Geoscience processes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The continuous movement of the continents.

• geoscience
• rain
• wind
• plate tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Measurement of large or small events

• scale
• distance
• landslides
• earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Mass of Earth and rock sliding down a mountain

• landslide
• earthquake
• volcano
• tornado

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2