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The pictures show example seismograms. What question can scientists answer using seismograms?

• How does Earth's crust move?

• How far underground is magma?

• How much magma is underground?

• How hot is it below Earth's surface?

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

This model shows some kinds of mountains form. What type of process is this?

• a constructive process that creates a new surface feature

• a constructive process that creates a new surface layer

• a destructive process that destroys a surface feature

• a destructive process that destroys a surface layer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which landform is created by moving water depositing sediment?

• Island

• Mountain

• Dune

• Delta

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the process that forms a dune?

• Lava cooling and hardening

• Wind depositing and shaping sand

• Moving tectonic plates

• Water depositing sediment

Which landform is formed by lava from an ocean volcano cooling and hardening?

• Island

• Mountain

• Dune

• Delta

The picture shows a sea arch found along a coastline. Select three processes that may have contributed to the formation of the sea arch.

• gravity weathering the arch

• wind eroding the arch

• waves eroding the arch

• ice depositing the arch

• wind weathering the arch

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Select two examples of physical weathering.

• A mountain forming at a fault line

• Wind wearing away a large boulder

• Water freezing in cracks in a rock and breaking it apart

• Mud and rocks sliding down a hill

• Wind shifting the position of a sand dune

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which process did Dalitso most likely build the model to show?

• the destructive process of erosion

• the constructive process of faulting

• the destructive process of weathering

• the constructive process of land formation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which most likely describes the event in the drawing? The drawing shows the effect of moving air on a desert sand dune, with changes from day to night.

• It is an example of erosion by gravity.

• It is an example of erosion by wind.

• It is an example of physical weathering by wind.

• It is an example of physical weathering by gravity.

Which label in the model represents the process of erosion?

• hard rock

• short waves

• sand moving away from shore

• sand collecting away from shore

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2