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What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
Both weathering and erosion are natural processes.
Weathering breaks things apart, while erosion carries them away.
Erosion breaks things apart, while weathering carries them away.
Weathering is the same thing as erosion
Which of these is the most powerful force of weathering and erosion?
wind
gravity
ice
moving water
Water is a powerful weathering agent. Three of the following are also agents of weathering. Which one is not?
wind
Freezing
Thawing
Oil
The process by which small pieces of rocks and soil are moved by natural forces is called
deposition
weathering
erosion
faults
The process of breaking up rocks on Earth's surface is called
deposition
weathering
erosion
faults
How does freezing water cause the weathering of rocks? The freezing water—
keeps the rocks in place
expands cracks and breaks rocks
makes the rocks last longer
causes rocks to fall in landslides
When a glacier moves boulders over the land, this is an example of
ice wedging
eruption
weathering
erosion
Which of the following is not an example of weathering?
sea oat plants grow on the dunes to help hold the sand
rain beats down on a sand dune causing it to shrink
ice wedging cracks a rock causing it to crumble
wind blows sand against a rock
A break in the rock that makes up Earth's crust, or top layer
fault
moraine
sink hole
dune
a hill of sand deposited by wind
moraine
dune
fault
sink hole
Volcanoes can be both destructive and constructive forces.