WorksheetsL11 Changing Earth's Surface: Fast & Curious
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
An acid that forms from the result of water mixing with carbon dioxide gas in the air or soil.
Mechanical
Ice Wedging
Roots
Chemical
Carbonic Acid
The process when water and oxygen combine to form rust.
Mechanical
Oxidation
Desert
Tropical
Carbonic Acid
Chemical weathering is
caused by living things, like plants and animals
caused by chemical processes like acid rain & carbonic acid
caused by force, like pressure, pushing, and crashing
burrowing animals break down sediments and rock in the soil (mechanical weathering)
freezing and thawing
animal actions
abrasion
plant growth
the mechanical and chemical processes that change Earth’s surface over time and weaken the rock.
Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
Lithification
What is groundwater?
A large, slowly moving body of ice and snow
Water that flows over the ground surface
Water stored below earth's surface
An icicle-shaped formation that hangs from the ceilings of a cave.
Which word describes the upward growing mound of mineral deposits on a cave floor?
Stalactites
Stalagmites
Sinkholes
Sandbars
the BREAKDOWN of rock into smaller pieces of the same rock without any change in its composition
the process of WEARING DOWN by friction - like sand blasting
exfoliation
abrasion
erosion
deposition
the process in which sediment particles are picked up and MOVED from one place to another
the part of the erosion process in which sediment travels to a new location and is laid down or DROPPED OFF
These features form when ground water evaporates and leaves mineral deposits behind on the ceiling of a cave.
stalagmites
stalactites
kettles
moraine
Plucking is an erosion from...
rivers
gravity
wind
glaciers
What is unsorted material deposited by a glacier?
Till
Erratics
Stratified Drift
Erosion
These form when a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier, gets covered in outwash, and then melts.
Kettles
Outwash Plains
Potholes
Buttes
What is the landform of sediment left behind from melted glaciers?
delta
moraine
sediment load
flood plain
