Natural Processes

What does a geologist study?

• Rock Cycle

• Earth and how it's landforms are created and destroyed

• Human Life

• The Earth's Spheres

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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A wide, round bottomed valley is shown. The valley was most likely formed from a __________.

• Glacier movement

• Wind erosion

• Flooding

• Volcanic activity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This type of weathering causes changes in the chemical properties of materials on the Earth's surface.

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Mechanical weathering

• Chemical

  weathering

________ is the pileup of eroded materials.

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

• None of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

______ is the movement of weathered and broken down materials.

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• None of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

______ is the breaking down of Earth's material.

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• None of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Natural forces such as a hurricane can speed up the natural processes in a particular area.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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Cryofracturing is an example of ______.

• Mechanical

  weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Chemical weathering

Which sphere is made of soil, rocks and landforms?

• Geosphere

• Hydosphere

• Biosphere

• Atmosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What process changes sedimentary rock to metamorphic rock?

• Cooling and melting

• Heat and pressure

• Evaporation

• Erosion