Weathering and Erosion

Natural processes changing ecoregions include-

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The repeated growth and melting of ice in pore space or fractures.

• Physical Weathering

• Chemical weathering

• Frost wedging

Chemical weathering where iron reacts with oxygen

• Oxidation

• Sediment

• Abrasion

Any of the various weathering processes that cause physical disintegration of exposed rock without any change in the chemical composition.

• Physical Weathering

• Chemical weathering

• Oxidation

The transport of sediments to a new location.

• Erosion

• Physical Weathering

• Deposition

• Chemical Weathering

Scraping of a rock surface by friction between rocks and moving particles during their transport by wind, glacier, waves, gravity, running water

• Sediment

• Frost wedging

• Erosion

• Abrasion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Weathering that alters the mineral composition, or chemical makeup, of rocks.

• Physical Weathering

• Chemical weathering

• Frost wedging

• Erosion

What is it called when weathered rock is carried away?

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

• breaking

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

Which of these examples is deposition?

• wind blowing sand

• sand that was dropped on the beach by waves

• pebbles falling downhill due to gravity

• a tree root breaking a rock

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

NGSS.5-ESS2-1

Weathering, erosion, and deposition impact Earth's geographic features.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4