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Breaking Down Rocks PPT
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Essential question: How is Earth’s crust shaped?
1. What are Karst topography?
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2. How do sinkholes form from Karst topographies?
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3. How do Freezing and Thawing (frost wedging) break rocks?
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4. How do glaciation carve land?
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5. What is an Avalanche?
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6. Running water causes ______________________________________________________________________________.
7. What is Soil creep?
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8. What is slumping?
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9. What is a Rockslide?
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10. What is Deflation (Wind Erosion)?
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11. What is foliation?
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12. What is graded bedding?
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13. How does a V-shaped Valley form?
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14. How does a U-Shaped Valley form?
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15. How can wind be a mechanical agent of weathering?
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16. What is root wedging?
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18. What are lichens (Biological weathering)?
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19. What are barrier islands?
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20. Why are barrier islands important?
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Multiple choice 1
Descriptions
____21. __ is a landscape created by groundwater dissolving sedimentary rocks such as limestone.
This forms an underground cave.
____22. __ form when the ground on top of Karst topographies (caves) collapses.
____23. __ is the result of water expanding by 9% when it freezes and wedges the rock until it breaks.
____24. _ is removal of material from the surface.
____25. _ is the mechanical scraping of a rock surface by friction between rocks.
____26. __ mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside
(mass movement).
____27. ___ is the slow downward progression of rock and soil down a low grade slope.
____28. ___ is the movement of loose rock and soil that moves a short distance down a
slope. It is usually shaped like a spoon.
Choices
A. ablation
B. abrasion
C. sinkhole
D. Graded
bedding
E. Karst
topography
F. creep
G. avalanche
H. slump
Multiple choice 2
Descriptions
____29. ___ is a type of landslide where rocks tumble downhill loosening other rocks on its
way and smashing everything in its path.
____30. ___ erosion of land by wind; can lower the land's surface by several meters.
____31. ___ is a weathering process that causes rock layers to peel away due to heat,
water, and wind.
____32. ___ is the way sediment settles. Large pieces on the bottom, medium sized pieces
next, and then the smallest particles on the top.
____ 33. A V - shaped valley was formed by ___.
____ 34. A U -shaped valley was formed by___.
____ 35. The greatest agent of erosion in the desert
____ 36. are composite organisms consisting of a fungus and a photosynthetic partner
growing together in a symbiotic relationship.
____37. Which of the following is the correct definition of "weathering"?
A: The breakdown of rocks.
B: The removal of rocks.
C: Neither
____38. Which of the following is the definition of erosion?
A: The process of disintegration of rock and soil.
C: Both
B: The processes that involve the movement of soil and rock.
D: Neither
____39. Which types of changes are included in the process of weathering? Check all that apply.
A: chemical changes
B: physical changes
C: Both
____40. Erosion can be caused by which of the following?
A: wind
B: water
C: ice
D: gravitational pull
E. All
____41.Is erosion a natural process?
A: Yes
B: No
C: Maybe
R. Angat
Choices
A. rockslide
B. deflation
C. foliation
D. River
E.
F.
G.
H.
wind
glacier
lichens
Graded
bedding
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