Understanding Erosion
A Grade 3 science worksheet on erosion, covering its causes, effects, and different types.
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Understanding Erosion
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Erosion is when natural forces like wind, water, and ice carry away rocks and soil from one place to another. This can change the shape of the land over many, many years.
1. What is erosion?
When rocks grow bigger
When soil and rocks are carried away
When plants make food
When water freezes
2. Which of these can cause erosion?
Wind
Water
Ice
All of the above
3. Erosion can change the shape of the over time.
4. When water carries away soil, it is called water .
5. Erosion happens very quickly, in just a few days.
True
False
6. Wind can pick up loose soil and sand, causing erosion.
True
False
7. Name two things that can cause erosion.
8. How can erosion change a mountain over many years?
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