Geoscience Processes

Which of the following surface features could be caused by moving ice but not by moving water or wind?

• Transporting large boulders over many kilometers

• Smoothing and rounding rocks of different sizes

• Carving out a canyon several kilometers long

• Movement of sediments down a mountainside

Which of these geoscience process has the largest time scale?

• tornado

• landslide

• flash flood

• delta formation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

One of these does not describe a tectonic plate boundary

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• landslide

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which type of plate boundary creates mountains

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• landslide

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Mass of Earth and rock sliding down a mountain

• landslide

• earthquake

• volcano

• tornado

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Movement of Earth's crust resulting in a violent shaking

• volcano

• earthquake

• tornado

• delta formation

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Example of

• limestone

• earthquake

• landslide

• delta formation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Example of

• landslide

• tornado

• hurricane

• delta

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Example of

• Weathering and erosion by water

• Weathering and erosion by wind

• Weathering and erosion by ice

• Plate tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which of the following changes to Earth’s surface is most likely to represent the smallest scale of space and time?

• A landslide on a mountain

• Uplift of mountain ranges

• Breakdown of rock into sediments

• Formation of a canyon

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2