3b) Bill Nye Erosion Questions

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Date: 11/18/2020

Bill Nye Video– EROSION

1. Every rock will be different tomorrow than it is today;

we say it is ________________________.

2. Water, ice, wind, sand, and chemicals are constantly crumbling mountains flatting
hills, widening valleys and deepening canyons. _____________________ never stops.

3. Water carries come of the solid away we say it is ___________________________.

4. When liquid water gets in cracks in rocks and freezes rocks _______________
_____________.

5. Ever particle of sand carries away a little bit of mountain, so that after awhile the mountains
__________________; they are eroding.

6. Landscapes all over the world are always ____________________ ; its erosion.

7. When it rains; the water that falls __________________ the Earth.

8. When there is something holding the soil in place; it doesn’t erode as ___________________.

9. Iron turns to iron oxide; it’s taking some of the iron out of the rock; some of the rock is going
away; it’s a form of erosion; it’s _________________________ erosion.

10. __________________ rocks are formed by wind erosion.

11. Sandy water acts like a ______________ __________ wearing its way down year after year.

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3b) Bill Nye Erosion Questions

12. Erosion is the slow __________________ ____________________ of the Earth’s surface.

13. Waves are relentless they _____________, _____________, _____________ on the shore
and the force of the wave _______________ the rock.

14. Waves turn rocks into ___________________; it’s erosion.

15. People can slow erosion by designing concrete ______________ putting up plywood
________ and installing ___________________ ________________.

16. As liquid flows over rock, it _________________ some of the minerals.

17. Erosion is a _______________ ______________ process.

18. When water freezes it expands, and that can cause _____________________.

19. Bill Nye lists several examples of what he calls erosion, but these are actually examples of
weathering.
Use what you know to explain the difference between weathering and erosion..

20. What are lichen?

21. What is a hoodoo?