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Worksheets12-1 Vocab
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Means that a material is full of tiny, connected air spaces that allow water to seep through it.
a)
permeable
b)
oxidation
c)
erosion
d)
none of the above
2.
Is the process of wearing down and carrying rock away.
a)
weathering
b)
erosion
c)
abrasion
d)
none of the above
3.
Is the process that breaks down rock and other substances.
a)
oxidation
b)
erosion
c)
permeable
d)
weathering
4.
This states that the geologic processes that operate today also operated in the past.
a)
frost wedging
b)
uniformitarianism
c)
weathering
d)
erosion
5.
Weathering in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces.
a)
abrasions
b)
frost wedging
c)
mechanical weathering
d)
chemical weathering
6.
This refers to the wearing away of rock by rock particles carried by water, ice, wind, or gravity.
a)
frost wedging
b)
erosion
c)
mechanical weathering
d)
abrasion
7.
The process in which wedges of ice in rocks widen and deepen cracks.
a)
frost wedging
b)
erosion
c)
weathering
d)
chemical weathering
8.
Is the process that breaks down rock through chemical changes.
a)
mechanical weathering
b)
oxidation
c)
frost wedging
d)
chemical weathering
9.
When iron combines with oxygen in the presence of water.
a)
frost wedging
b)
oxidation
c)
erosion
d)
sponge bob
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