Geoscience Processes Lesson

Which of the following is a large scale geoscience process?

• landslides

• tectonic plate movement

• river erosion

• formation of caves

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Natural process that happen on Earth

• slow processes

• historic processes

• landmarks

• Geoscience processes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Which of the following surface features could be caused by moving ice but not by moving water or wind?

• Transporting large boulders over many kilometers

• Smoothing and rounding rocks of different sizes

• Carving out a canyon several kilometers long

• Movement of sediments down a mountainside

Which of the following land features would take the largest amount of time to change?

• location of continents

• shape of volcano

• position of sand dunes

• landslides

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The concept that the oldest rock layers are at the bottom of a sequence with younger rock layers deposited on top of them.

• relative dating

• superposition

• rock strata

• core sample

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Observing the erosion of a mountain over time and concluding that the same natural processes eroding this mountain today were also at work millions of years ago.

• unconformity

• superposition

• cross cutting relationships

• uniformitarianism

Uniformitarianism includes the following processes:

• beach erosion

• volcanic eruptions

• earthquakes

• biblical smiting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is a geoscience process?

• A type of scientific study that focuses only on geological time scales.

• Any process that happens on Earth, such as weathering, erosion, or plate tectonics.

• A biological process that affects the geology of the Earth.

• A chemical process used in laboratories to simulate Earth's conditions.

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A gap in the sequence of sedimentary rock layers caused by erosion.

• Inclusion

• Unconformity

• Cross-cutting

• Isotope

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which of these geoscience process has the largest time scale?

• tornado

• landslide

• flash flood

• delta formation

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2