Changing Earth's Surface

True or false: The lava that forms cone shaped volcanoes is usually thin.

• True

• False

Water can cause physical and chemical weathering.

• True

• False

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Which of the following is an example of chemical weathering?

• ice wedging

• root wedging

• acid rain

What evidence shows that Earth’s surface has changed over time? 

• ROCK FORMATIONS

• PHENOMENONS

• RAIN

• HAIL

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Which is an example of slow changes to the Earth's surface?

• RAIN AND HAIL

• CANYONS AND CAVES

• EARTHQUAKES

• VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

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Which is an example of rapid changes to the Earth's surface?

• CAVES

• EARTHQUAKES

• CANYONS

• VALLEYS

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Rocks with different color layers as evidence of?

• THAT EACH LAYER WAS FORMED AT A DIFFERENT TIME

• THAT EACH LAYER WAS FORMED AT THE SAME TIME

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Is a scientist that studies the surface of the Earth and what it is made of.

• DOCTOR

• ARCHEOLOGIST

• GEOLOGIST

• SCIENTIST

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Natural forces include: moving water, glaciers, waves, wind and gravity.

• deposition

• mass movement

• agents of erosion

• sediment

The downhill movement of sediment because of gravity.

• deposition

• mass movement

• agents of erosion

• sediment