Earth's Landscapes

Which of these caused the Sharktooth Hill bone bed to form?

• a river stopped and started flowing

• volcanic eruption

• sharks ate all the animals

• major earthquake

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What evidence does the team find that suggests that the desert was once an ocean?

• shark tooth

• whale bone

• fish fossil

• starfish fossil

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What formed the Grand Canyon?

• river

• glacier

• dinosaurs

• humans

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describes all the visible features of the earth’s surface.

• rock layer

• bone bed

• Earth's Landscapes

• erosion

fine sand, clay, or other material carried by moving water and deposited at the bottom of a body of water like the ocean.

• rocks

• silt

• bone bed

• rock layer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

often formed one on top of the other.

• silt

• sedimentary rock

• Grand Canyon

• rock layer

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

a five-thousand-foot-deep canyon located in Arizona, a state in the USA.

• Mount Everest

• Mount Kilimanjaro

• Grand Canyon

• Erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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after pieces of the earth are broken down through weathering, the process of moving things from one place to another takes place.

• silt

• fossil

• erosion

• rock layer

Which process is responsible for the breakdown of rocks into smaller particles?

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Sedimentation

What is the primary force that shapes the Earth's landscapes by moving sediment from one place to another?

• Gravity

• Wind

• Water

• Ice

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