Understanding Deposition
A Grade 3 science worksheet to help students understand the process of deposition and how it shapes the Earth's surface.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you learn about deposition, how landforms are created, and how rocks and soil are moved by wind and water.
1. What is deposition?
When rocks break into smaller pieces.
When wind and water carry away soil.
When soil and rocks are dropped in a new place.
When water freezes in cracks.
2. Which of these is a landform created by deposition?
A tall mountain peak.
A sandy beach.
A deep canyon.
A volcano.
3. When a river slows down, it drops the rocks and soil it was carrying. This is called .
4. Wind can pick up sand and move it to a new place. Over time, these piles of sand can form .
5. Deposition only happens with water, never with wind.
True
False
6. Deltas are landforms created when a river deposits sediment at its mouth.
True
False
7. Look at the image below. What natural force caused the sand and rocks to be deposited here?
8. Describe one way that deposition changes the Earth's surface.