Question

Students make a diagram to describe how the materials of Earth are changed.



Which processes cause Earth materials to change? Move the labels into the diagram.

Response area with 6 blank spaces

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Answered by GPT-4o mini
To describe how Earth materials change, you can fill the diagram with the following processes:

1. **Weathering** - The breakdown of rocks and minerals through contact with the Earth's atmosphere, waters, and biological organisms.

2. **Erosion** - The movement of weathered materials from one location to another by wind, water, ice, or gravity.

3. **Deposition** - The process by which eroded materials are deposited in a new location, forming sedimentary layers.

4. **Compaction** - The process where sediment is compressed under pressure, reducing the space between particles.

5. **Cementation** - The process by which dissolved minerals precipitate from groundwater and fill the spaces between sediment grains, binding them together.

6. **Metamorphism** - The alteration of rocks through heat, pressure, and chemically active fluids, changing them into metamorphic rocks.

You can use these labels to illustrate the cycle of how Earth materials are changed in the response area.

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