Crash Course Kids Weathering and Erosion

Mark the true statements

• Ocean waves can weather rocks

• Landforms are natural features on the Earth's surface

• Weathering can only happen to small rocks

• Living things can cause weathering

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What causes pieces of the rocky, sandy coastline to break into smaller pieces or to weather over time?

• Wind

• Heat from the Sun

• Ocean waves

• Ice

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What is the process that carries rock fragments away after they have been weathered?

• Erosion

• Mechanical weathering

• Chemical weathering

• Weathering

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What is the process of breaking big rocks into little ones called?

• Chemical weathering

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Mechanical weathering

What is the intense energy of ocean waves crashing onshore a major cause of?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Mechanical weathering

• Chemical weathering

What causes changes in the surface of the rock that make it change shape or color?

• All of the above

• Acids

• Oxygen

• Carbon dioxide

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What is the process that takes place as rocks in the geosphere are broken down into smaller pieces?

• Mechanical weathering

• Tectonic movement

• Chemical weathering

• Erosion

The wearing away of rock by rock particles carried by water, ice, wind, or gravity.

• freezing and thawing

• relief of pressure

• erosion

• acid rain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

the process of wearing down and carrying away rock

• erosion

• weathering

• soil

• humus

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Which form of mechanical weathering involves water freezing and thawing in cracks in the rock that eventually break apart the rock?

• abrasion

• release of pressure

• freezing and thawing

• burrowing