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Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
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1.

Pray, good sir or madam, Charley hath a spice garden in her yard. There is heavy rain fall during a storm. Some of the soil is washed away during this storm. What is the best word to describe this process?

a)

Deposition

b)

Discharge

c)

Erosion

d)

Weathering

2.

What doth cause rocks to break down due to physical change?

a)

Deposition

b)

Erosion

c)

Chemical weathering

d)

Physical weathering

3.

What doth cause rocks to break down due to chemical change?

a)

Deposition

b)

erosion

c)

physical weathering

d)

chemical weathering

4.

What doth befall at the dropping of material out of wind or water?

a)

Deposition

b)

Discharge

c)

erosion

d)

weathering

5.

What dost thou call the process that picks up and moves weathered rocks?

a)

Deposition

b)

Landslide

c)

Weathering

d)

Erosion

6.

What dost thou call a massive, slow-moving block of ice that carves its way through the landscape, shaping the earth as it goes?

a)

A glacier

b)

An iceberg

c)

An ice wedge

d)

A sand dune

7.

How doth plants breakdance with rocks?

a)

During photosynthesis

b)

When roots throw a rockin' party in the cracks of rocks and break it down.

c)

When the plant moves water from the roots to the leaves, the rock breaks.

d)

Plants don't weather rocks.

8.

What be some agents of weathering?

a)

True

b)

False

9.

What dost we call the tiny, shattered fragments of rock?

a)

soil

b)

filth

c)

sediment

d)

popcorn

10.

What action doth formeth a delta?

a)

Weathering

b)

Erosion

c)

Deposition

d)

Condensation