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WorksheetsLand Features and Changes on Earth
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How does water cause erosion?
a)
It makes rocks wet.
b)
It rains and get everything rainy and gooey.
c)
Rain, rivers, and ocean waves wash rock from one place and move it to another.
d)
Artic air and freezing rain can cause rocks to freeze.
2.
How does wind cause weathering?
a)
Wind does not cause weathering.
b)
Wind makes the clouds move.
c)
Wind is strong and cause tornadoes.
d)
Wind blows sand on the rock and wears it down.
3.
What is the process where "weathered material has been carried away and then laid down (or dropped) somewhere else?"
a)
erosion
b)
gravity
c)
weathering
d)
deposition
4.
How does a moving glacier cause erosion?
a)
By covering the rock.
b)
By freezing the rock.
c)
By picking up and carrying rocks and weathered material.
d)
By cracking a large rock into many pieces.
5.
What is the picking up and moving of loose broken rock to a NEW place?
a)
erosion
b)
gravity
c)
weathering
d)
deposition
6.
What is the slow process that breaks rock into smaller pieces?
a)
erosion
b)
gravity
c)
weathering
d)
deposition
7.
How could planting trees change the Earth's surface?
a)
Trees drain nutrients from the soil.
b)
Trees add carbon dioxide to the air.
c)
Trees hold the soil and help prevent erosion
d)
Trees provide more timber for houses.
8.
What occurs when water rises over the banks or sides of a river?
a)
a landslide
b)
a flood
c)
an earthquake
d)
a huricane
9.
What happens when hardened lava builds up over a long period of time?
a)
a landslide
b)
a flood
c)
rivers form
d)
mountains form
10.
What happens when hardened lava builds up over a long period of time?
a)
a landslide
b)
a flood
c)
rivers form
d)
mountains form
11.
There is a large pile of rocks at the base of a mountain. What most likely caused this change?
a)
a landslide
b)
a volcano
c)
weathering
d)
erosion
12.
A large boulder slowly becomes smaller over hundreds of years. How did this rock change size?
a)
People broke it into little pieces.
b)
Animals scratched it.
c)
Wind and rain weathered it.
d)
Plants used up all the nutrients.
13.
How can a volcano change the Earth's surface?
a)
Volcanoes can make rain forests.
b)
The hardened lava from volcanoes can make mountains over a period of time.
c)
Volcanoes can make rivers
d)
Volcanoes can cause it to snow.
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