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Bill Nye Erosion
Name:_________________
1. Every rock will be different tomorrow than it is
today;
we say it is ________________________.
2. Water, ice, wind, sand, and chemicals are
constantly crumbling mountains flatting
hills, widening valleys and deepening canyons.
_____________________ never stops.
3. Water carries come of the solid away we say it is ___________________________.
4. When liquid water gets in cracks in rocks and freezes rocks _______________ _____________.
5. Every particle of sand carries away a little bit of mountain, so that after awhile the mountains
__________________; they are eroding.
6. Landscapes all over the world are always ____________________ ; its erosion.
7. When it rains; the water that falls __________________ the Earth.
8. When there is something holding the soil in place; it doesn’t erode as ___________________.
9. Iron turns to iron oxide; it’s taking some of the iron out of the rock; some of the rock is going
away; it’s a form of erosion; it’s _________________________ erosion.
10. When you have layers of different kinds of rock erosion can happen form the ________ ______.
11. __________________ rocks are formed by wind erosion.
12. Sandy water acts like a ______________
__________ wearing its way down year after year.
13. Erosion is the slow __________________ ____________________ of the Earth’s surface.
14. Waves are relentless they _____________, _____________, _____________ on the shore and
the force of the wave _______________ the rock.
15. Waves turn rocks in to ___________________; it’s erosion.
16. People can slow erosion by designing concrete ______________ putting up plywood ________
and installing ___________________ ________________.
17. In one way trees _____________ erosion down, but in another way ____________
it up. Living things are part of the process.
18. As liquid flows over rock it _________________ some of the minerals.
19. Erosion is a _______________ ______________ process.
20. When water freezes it expands and that can cause _____________________.
Sedimentary Notes
1.
What is weathering?
2.
What’s the difference between chemical and physical weathering?
3.
How is erosion different than weathering?
4.
What are the 4 types of erosion?
5.
What is deposition?
6.
What is lithification?
7.
What are the 5 types of sedimentary rock?
8.
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