Weathering and Erosion

the process of wearing down and carrying away rock

• erosion

• weathering

• soil

• humus

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The agents of which type of weathering include water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, living organisms, and acid rain?

• mechanical weathering

• erosion

• chemical weathering

• soil

What is the process that picks up and moves weathered rocks?

• Erosion

• Landslide

• Weathering

What is the wearing away or breaking down of rocks called?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Glaciers

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What is an enormous mass of ice moving over land, causing weathering of rock and soil?

• glacier

• iceberg

• ice wedge

• sand dune

Weathering and erosion are the same thing.

• True

• False

What is weathering?

• The process by which
  water, ice, wind or gravity
  moves fragments of rock
  and soil.

• The process by which
  water, ice, wind or gravity
  deposit rock sediments
  and soil in a new place.

• The breaking down of
  Earth’s crust into smaller
  and smaller pieces.

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What is erosion?

• The process by which
  water, ice, wind or gravity
  moves fragments of rock
  and soil.

• The process by which
  water, ice, wind or gravity
  deposit rock sediments
  and soil in a new place.

• The breaking down of
  Earth’s crust into smaller
  and smaller pieces.

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What caused this rock to break apart?

• ice

• plant

• wind

• rain

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Wind blasting sand at rock and carving out caves

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

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