Let me work through this erosion worksheet step by step.
Question 1: "Water, ice, and ___ can change the land."
- Options: wind / clouds
- Wind is a force that can move soil and rock particles, causing erosion
- Clouds themselves don't directly change the land (though rain from clouds does)
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Answer: wind
Question 2: "This process is called ___."
- Options: pollution / erosion
- The process of water, ice, and wind changing the land is called erosion
- Pollution is contamination, not the wearing away of land
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Answer: erosion
Question 3: "___ is when small particles of rock are broken off and carried away."
- Options: Weathering / Raining
- Weathering is the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces
- Raining is just precipitation falling from clouds
- The description matches weathering perfectly
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Answer: Weathering
Question 4: "This can cause the land to ___."
- Options: change / grow
- When soil is washed away and particles are carried off, the land changes shape
- Land doesn't "grow" from erosion - it loses material
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Answer: change
Final Answer:
1. wind
2. erosion
3. Weathering
4. change
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