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Earth's Changing Surface:: Weathering and Erosion
Earth's Changing Surface:: Weathering and Erosion
Earth's Changing Surface:: Weathering and Erosion
Changing
Surface:
Weathering and Erosion
2. Which does not cause rocks to change into bits of sand and soil?
a. crashing waves
b. water freezing
c. wind-blown sand
d. deposition
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Illustrate: Show what happens
when a plant is sprouting from a crack in rock.
4. The word “carve” means –
a. cut into
b. destroyed
c. blended into
d. grew
5. What are two causes when rocks crack? Explain how each cause rocks to crack or break down into
smaller pieces.
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8. What is a butte?
a. small rolling hills
b. a steep hill that stands alone in a flat area
c. a large flat area around the mouth of a river
d. it carries away soil, sand, and small rocks
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14. When glaciers pick up pebbles, rocks, and boulders, which one would have the greatest affect moving
across on the land? Why?
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15. How are weathering and erosion alike? How are they different? Write your answers by filling in the
Venn diagram below.
2. D – DEPOSITION
3. ACCEPT REASONABLE ANSWERS. Suggestion: As the roots grow, they widen the
cracks. This eventually breaks the rock into pieces. Then over time, trees can break apart
even large rocks. Even small plants, such as moss, can enlarge tiny cracks as they grow.
4. A – CUT INTO
6. B – MORAINE
7. EXPOSED - means to uncover or bare to the air, cold, (or the weather)
9. C – WATER EXPANDS
(Farmers have to reduce these affects. They must: cultivate their land, make windbreaks, cover
plants, or have strong trees to break the wind.)
©2005 Created by J. Kelsheimer
14. ACCEPT REASONABLE ANSWERS: Suggestion: The boulder, being the
largest and heaviest object being dragged across the land, would seem to affect the land
the greatest.
WEATHERING EROSION
DIFFERENT ALIKE DIFFERENT