Sinace Exams Flashcards
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Define erosion
The carrying away of whetherd material
The most important agent of erosion is blank
Streams
True or false, as a plant grows the roots can break rocks apart
True
Physical weathering is also known as blank weathering
Mechanical
Blank weathering is the ways in which rock breaks down by chemical you changing some of the materials in the rock
Chemical
Blank weathering is the ways in which rock breaks down into smaller pieces without any chemical changes
Physical
Rocks that are produced when magma or lava cools and hardens are called what rock
Igneous
What climate is best for chemical weathering to occur
Hot, wet
A rough that contains fossils is what type of rock
Sedimentary
Waves for new land by blank
Deposition
Plants are factor in what type of weather
Both
The type of mass movement that involve soil particles moving slowly down hills called blank
Creep
What does the word metamorphic mean
Change in form
Which climate is affected the most by wind erosion
The desert
How do you classify rocks
From its formation
The movement of the continents over time describes the blank
The continental drift theory
12 plates move away from each other the type of boundary forms
Diversion, seafloor spreading
What are the agents of erosion
Gravity, streams, ice glaciers, wind, waves
Broken pieces of what types of rock or deposited into layers it’s better together to form sedimentary rock
Metamorphic, igneous, sedimentary
What causes rock slides
Gravity
Valleys mountain bowls, canyons, deltas, and sand dunes are examples of the effects of blank
Erosion, wind
What is the core
Solid inner layer of earth almost solid iron
The study of how earth is formed and how it changes is known as
Geology
