1) Breaking rock into sediment a) weathering b) erosion c) deposition 2) Moving sediment away from an area a) weathering b) erosion c) deposition 3) Dropping sediment off in an area a) weathering b) erosion c) deposition 4) Agents of erosion and deposition a) wind, water, ice, gravity b) electricity, magnetism, earthquakes 5) Sand dunes build up as sediment drops out of wind a) a deposition feature made by wind b) an erosion feature made by wind 6) What best describes why meanders get more bendy? a) river erosion b) river deposition c) both river erosion and deposition 7) Striations are made when glaciers carve into rock and carry rock away a) an erosion feature made by glaciers b) a deposition feature made by glaciers 8) Moraines are made as glaciers push sediment into a ridge and melt adding more sediment to those ridges a) an erosion feature made by glaciers b) a deposition feature made by glaciers 9) Canyons form as river carry sediment away from an area a) an erosion feature made by rivers b) a deposition feature created by rivers 10) Deltas form as sediment is dropped at the mouth of a river. a) erosion feature made by rivers b) deposition feature made by rivers 11) Large movement of material down a slope due to gravity a) Mass Movement (Mass Wasting) b) Meander c) Iceberg

Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition

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