Weathering, Erosion and Deposition

5. Water erosion picks up and moves ____ sediment.
6. Earth is made of dozens of plates deep below the ____.
8. Erosion is a ____ process that carries rock and sediment from one place to another.
12. Gravity can pull rock and sediment down hills and mountains known as a ____.
14. Erosion can take place by wind, water, ice or ____.

1. The constructive formation of ____ are caused by plate collisions.
2. ____ is the laying down or settling of eroded material.
3. _____ is the process that breaks down rocks and other substances at earth's surface.
4. When water ____ in a crack in a rock, it expands and makes the crack bigger.
7. Sediment is the small, weathered remains of ____.
9. ____ are a landform that forms from the deposition of sediment carried by a river into a larger body of water.
10. Roots of trees and other ____ enter cracks in rocks.
11. ____ are created from the action of wind and water depositing sand along the coast.
13. Overtime, the root of even ____ plants can pry open the cracks in rocks and make them bigger.