Weathering and Erosion
Glencoe Science
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Weathering and Erosion
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ASSESSMENT Chapter Tests Chapter Review
HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES Lab Worksheets for each Student Edition Activity Laboratory Activities Foldables?Reading and Study Skills activity sheet
MEETING INDIVIDUAL NEEDS Directed Reading for Content Mastery Directed Reading for Content Mastery in Spanish Reinforcement Enrichment Note-taking Worksheets
TRANSPARENCY ACTIVITIES Section Focus Transparency Activities Teaching Transparency Activity Assessment Transparency Activity
Teacher Support and Planning
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Meeting Individual Needs
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Class
Directed Reading for Overview Content Mastery Weathering and Erosion
Directions: Use the terms in the list below to complete the concept maps.
gravity creep
water
rock slides
mechanical
mudflows ice
Weathering
ice wedging and living organisms is
1.
caused by
Agents of erosion
natural acids and oxygen is
chemical
include
include
2. wind
include 3.
include 4.
soil particles moving downhill, or
Types of mass movement include
rock layers breaking loose, or
wet sediment
sediment moving
5.
moving downhill, or along curved surfaces, or
7.
6. slump
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Meeting Individual Needs
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Directed Reading for Section 1 Weathering and
Content Mastery
Soil Formation
Directions: Write the term that matches each description below on the spaces provided. Then rearrange the boxed letters to answer the final question.
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2. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
3. ___ ___ ___
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4. ___ ___ ___
5. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
6. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
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9. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
1. gas that is a major cause of chemical weathering 2. surface land features such as flat or hilly 3. freezing and thawing cycle that causes potholes in roads and breaks in rocks 4. mixture of weathered rock, organic matter, water, and air 5. acid produced by some plant roots 6. weathering that breaks down rocks without changing them chemically 7. acid formed from water mixing with carbon dioxide 8. caused by chemical reaction of iron and oxygen 9. weathering that changes the chemical composition of rocks 10. What is the natural process that causes rock to break down? ____________________
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Meeting Individual Needs
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Directed Reading for Section 2 Erosion of Earth's
Content Mastery
Surface
Directions: For each of the following, write the letter of the term or phrase that best completes the sentence. 1. Erosion called mass movement is caused by ______.
a. wind
b. gravity
c. earthquakes d. runoff
2. The major result of heavy rains or melting snow and ice is ______.
a. abrasion b. creep
c. valley glaciers d. mudflow
3. Sediment of different-sized particles left by ice from glaciers is called ______.
a. till
b. outwash
c. cirque
d. slump
4. Small channels called ______ are cut into Earth's surface when sheets of water flow around obstacles and become deeper.
a. gullies
b. sand bars c. rills
d. deltas
5. ______ are the most important agent of erosion on Earth.
a. Winds
b. Glaciers
c. Sand dunes d. Streams
Directions: Complete the paragraphs by filling in the blanks using the terms listed below.
mudflows glaciers
rock slides
rock
gravity
mass movement
water
slump
ice erosion
cirques
6. ________________ is the wearing away and removal of 7. _________________
material. Erosion occurs because 8. __________________, 9. ________________,
wind, and 10. ____________________ sculpt Earth's surface. Gravity causes differ-
ent kinds of 11. ____________________ such as 12. ____________________,
creep, and 13. __________________. Gravity also causes 14. __________________,
layers of rock breaking loose and sliding down slopes.
In cold regions, snow can accumulate over many years to form huge masses of ice
called 15. ____________________. They can remove rock from mountain tops,
leaving depressions called 16. ____________________.
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Meeting Individual Needs
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Directed Reading for Key Terms Content Mastery Weathering and Erosion
Directions: Draw a line to connect the term on the left to its description on the right.
1. slump
mixture of weathered rock, organic matter, water, and air
2. mechanical weathering
erosion caused by wind that can lower the land's surface
3. runoff 4. soil 5. mass movement 6. creep 7. topography 8. chemical weathering 9. erosion 10. deflation 11. abrasion
gravity causing rock or sediment to move downhill
thick layers of loose sediment moving downhill along a curved surface
process in which composition of the rock changes
wearing away and removal of rock material
sediments moving slowly downhill due to freezing and thawing
breaks rocks into pieces without changing their composition
erosion, caused by wind, that produces smooth, polished rocks
surface features of land that influence type of soil
water that flows over Earth's surface
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