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Mechanical Weathering Vocabulary 2023

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The process by which rock is mechanically or physically broken down into smaller pieces. 

a)

Weathering

b)

Mechanical Weathering

c)

Erosion

d)

Tree Root Wedging

2.

The wearing down of rocks by friction of water or wind.

a)

Abrasion

b)

weathering

c)

erosion

d)

frost wedging

3.

The process in which roots grow into cracks in rocks and force the cracks open as they continue to grow. 

a)

tree root erosion

b)

mechanical weathering

c)

frost wedging

d)

tree root wedging

4.

The breaking apart of rock due to pressure of water freezing in the cracks.

a)

root wedging

b)

frost erosion

c)

frost wedging

d)

root erosion

5.

The process of breaking rocks into smaller pieces.

a)

weathering

b)

erosion

c)

abrasion

d)

deposition

6.

The process of moving weathered rock from one place to another.

a)

weathering

b)

erosion

c)

abrasion

d)

sediment

7.

the new placement of sediment after erosion has taken place.

a)

sediment

b)

abrasion

c)

deposition

d)

erosion

8.

Small pieces of rock that have been broken down by the process of weathering.

a)

abrasion

b)

sediment

c)

deposition

d)

weathering

9.

A natural resource that cannot be replaced easily and will run out someday.

a)

nonrenewable resource

b)

renewable resource

c)

toilet paper

d)

carbon dioxide

10.

A natural resource that can be replaced easily or will never run out.

a)

renewable resource

b)

nonrenewable resource

c)

toilet paper

d)

fossil

11.

The process plants go through to make their own food is called

a)

Photosynthesis

b)

Glucose

c)

Herbivore

d)

Food Chain

12.

Eats other organisms; a living thing that needs to eat to obtain energy.

a)

Producer

b)

Consumer

c)

Food Chain

13.

The gas that is given off by plants and used by humans to breathe.

a)

chlorophyll

b)

oxygen

c)

carbon dioxide

d)

photosynthesis

14.

The gas that is given off by humans and used by plants to go through photosynthesis.

a)

carbon dioxide

b)

oxygen

c)

chlorophyll

d)

photosynthesis