Changing Earth's Surface Quiz

Chemical weathering changes the materials that are part of a rock into new materials.

Deposition is the laying down or settling of eroded material.

The physical and chemical processes that change objects on Earth’s surface over time are called weathering

Erosion is the moving of weathered material from one location to another.

Physical weathering breaks rocks into small pieces without changing the composition or chemical make-up of the rock.

Streams are active systems that weather and erode land and deposit sediments.

• True

• False

The shape of the landforms created by water erosion and deposition does not depends on the speed of water movement and the depositional environment.

• True

• False

A meander is a broad, C-shaped curve in a stream.

Meanders can make a stream into a large, snake-shaped feature in the land.

• True

• False

Moving water can cause great changes both on and below Earth’s surface.

• True

• False