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How are canyons formed?
How are canyons formed?
Flowing water from rivers erode the land.
What landform is flat, wide, and found on the top of canyons?
What landform is flat, wide, and found on the top of canyons?
Plateaus
What landform is low, long and narrow?
What landform is low, long and narrow?
Valley
There is a tall and jagged mountain and a short and rounded mountain. Which mountain is older and why?
There is a tall and jagged mountain and a short and rounded mountain. Which mountain is older and why?
The shorter rounded mountain is older because it has been eroded.
What are TWO reasons why sand dunes continually change size and shape.
What are TWO reasons why sand dunes continually change size and shape.
The sand can be moved and or formations shaped by wind, water, human activity, or storms.
What is erosion?
What is erosion?
Erosion is the movement of sediment.
How does temperature change a playground blacktop?
How does temperature change a playground blacktop?
The plant roots push apart the pavement causing cracks in the blacktop.
How do plants change a playground blacktop?
How do plants change a playground blacktop?
The blacktop had moisture trapped in the pavement and the temperature went to freezing, the moisture expands and cracks the pavement.
What is a landslide/mudslide?
What is a landslide/mudslide?
When large rocks are removed from a cliff face and deposited at the bottom of a canyon wall.
How does water change canyon walls?
How does water change canyon walls?
Water erodes the canyon walls by moving sediment with it.
Soil washing away from the sides of a riverbank...
Soil washing away from the sides of a riverbank...
Erosion
Rocks falling down the side of a mountain...
Rocks falling down the side of a mountain...
Erosion
Sand dunes moving and changing shape with ocean waves...
Sand dunes moving and changing shape with ocean waves...
Erosion
Plant Roots growing through sidewalks in concrete...
Plant Roots growing through sidewalks in concrete...
Weathering
Ice freezing and expanding to break concrete...
Ice freezing and expanding to break concrete...
Weathering
How are dunes formed?
How are dunes formed?
Wind blows sand.
What agent of erosion cases the most changes to landforms?
What agent of erosion cases the most changes to landforms?
Water
How are canyons created?
How are canyons created?
Glaciers or rivers carve them out.
How are islands created?
How are islands created?
Islands are created when an underwater volcano erupts and gets built up and the magma starts hardening above the Earth's surface.
How are mountains created?
How are mountains created?
Earth's tectonic plates slide under one another and the Earth's crust gets pushed up.
Is there more salt water or fresh water on the Earth?
Is there more salt water or fresh water on the Earth?
Salt Water
Is the Earth covered by more water or more land?
Is the Earth covered by more water or more land?
Water
What is a rapid change to the Earth's surface?
What is a rapid change to the Earth's surface?
Earthquakes that move the land and rocks.
Descrive TWO changes to the Earth's surface that glaciers cause.
Descrive TWO changes to the Earth's surface that glaciers cause.
1. Rivers and lakes are formed from the scooping out of the land. 2. Mountains are formed or crushed down. 3. More fertile soil is created
What natural process causes wearing away of statues?
What natural process causes wearing away of statues?
Blowing wind and rain.
Is drinking water ever in short supply for people on Earth? Explain.
Is drinking water ever in short supply for people on Earth? Explain.
Yes, the Earth is covered more by water than land, but most of that water is salt water. We can't drink salt water.
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