YOU MUST USE THE WORDS FROM THE IMAGE: Rainfall, Detachment, Transportation, and Relocation
Sentence Starter: Rain can change a mountain by...
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Rocks can be broken down into smaller rocks.
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Sediments are small pieces of broken rock.
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Sedimentation is what makes plastic?
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Sedimentation helps form layers necessary to make aquifers and fossil fuels
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The word “weathering” is different than the word “weather”
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Weathering - means to ______ ______
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The process by which rocks are broken down into _________ over a long period of time.
* Mechanical weathering changes the size and _____ of rock, not the chemical arrangement
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Which of these is not an example of mechanical weathering?
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Categorize the different types of mechanical weathering!!!
Glacial Weathering
River (Surface runoff) Weathering
Wind Weathering
Freezing and Expanding rock Weathering
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The breaking down rocks through chemical processes that change the rock’s ___________ of _____ (chemicals)
* Some common types of atoms/chemicals are Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Carbon, etc.
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Acid rain is an example of chemical wasthering:
Acid rain: carbon dioxide in the atmosphere _____ with water in clouds to produce carbonic acid. As it rains down carbonic acid it _________ (breaks down) rocks
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Chemical reactions with metals also cause chemical weathering.
Oxygen can _____ with metals in rocks and cause them to rust and break down.
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Mechanical (MW) or Chemical (CW) weathering?
An abrasion on a rock is a scrape that occurs when wind or water hits against rock.
Iron reacts with oxygen to make blue soil.
Plants growing in the cracks of rocks causes the rocks to split.
Caves forming when carbonic acid dissolves limestone.
Temperature changes like when water freezes into cracks and expands.
Chemical Weathering
Mechanical Weathering
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Erosion is when sediments (broken pieces of rocks) are _______ ____ from one location to another.
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Categorize the following into erosion or weathering
Wind blows small particles of rock to a different area.
When rocks are transported from one place to another place.
Water seeps into a rock freezes and then expands over night breaking the rock in half.
Wind blows sand against a larger rock causing the rock to break down.
A river moves sediments down to another place.
When rocks are broken down into smaller rocks.
Erosion
Weathering
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According to video, what is weathering?
Sentence Starter: The video mentions that weathering is...
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According to video, what is erosion?
Sentence Starter: The video mentions that erosion is...
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Rocks can be broken down in a variety of ways through the process of weathering. Which of the following is an example of a chemical form of weathering?
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Miami Beach is a popular tourist destination because of its beautiful beaches and white sand. However, over time, the sandy part of the beach seems to be shrinking and the water creeps further and further towards the boardwalk. Every few years, the city needs to bring in sand to replenish the shrinking beach. Which of the following explains why the city of Miami Beach needs to bring in sand every few years?
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Rebecca is learning about two parts of the rock cycle. Weathering and erosion. She needs to explain how weathering and erosion are different. Which of the following correctly describes the difference between weathering and erosion?
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According to the video,
What is weathering, erosion, and depostion?
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The root of the word deposition is deposit.
What does the word deposit mean?
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Mrs. Copp has decided that you are the EVALUATOR. You are given the the task of evaluating which student is more correct based on your understanding of the difference between weathering and erosion. Only one student is correct, which student is it?
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Sort the cards into weathering, erosion and deposition categories.
Hint:
Four belong to weathering
Four belong to erosion
two belong to deposition
Strong winds blowing sand across a beach.
Tree roots growing around rocks and breaking them.
Muddy deltas forming at the mouths of rivers as soil is dropped off there by river water
Layers of sediment dropped at the bottom of a lake a long time ago.
A mudslide flowing and moving mud down a hill.
A river poilishing rocks smooth without removing them.
Wind blowing sand against a rock causing the rock to have abrasions and to break down
A hurricance washing sand off of a beach.
Water freezing in the cracks in rock and splitting them open.
Rain washing soil away from the P.E. field carrying it away to somewhere else
Weathering "breaking"
Erosion "carrying"
Deposition "dropping off"
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Choose A or B to create:
A: An infographic of mechanical versus chemical weathering
