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Is changes in the earth's surface due to moving water is a rapid or slow process?
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∙ 13y ago
Slow. Erosion caused by water is a slow process, and usually takes hundreds of years. The Grand Canyon!
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∙ 11y agoPlate tectonics make mountains and earthquakes. It takes time. Continents moving about 4 inches per year can be slow but takes lots of changes.
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How do earthquakes change earth's surface?
Earthquakes change earth by moving earths plates
What involves moving rocks and soil from the earths surface to expose materials to be mined?
This is called removing overburden, and usually requires heavy machinery; eg: to access coal seams, sometimes entire mountain tops are removed.
The major agent of erosion that shapes Earth's land surface is moving?
Water.
How can moving surface water be used?
power generation, irrigation, travel, and recreation
What do you call moving water far beneath the ocean's surface?
An ocean current?
Which natural process is caused by rocks moving under earths surface?
earthquakes
How the way in which wind and moving water reshape earths surface?
Wind and moving water reshape the Earth's surface through the process of erosion.
What is a number of rigid but moving pieces of earths surface?
Lithospheric plates are a number of rigid but moving pieces of earths surface.
What are two types of rock changes as it moves?
lava moving in between the cracks of the earths surface and pushing rocks together and apart.
Were oceans caused by the moving of the earths surface?
no
How do fossils provide evidence for moving plates?
Their evidence comes from rocks at earths surface.
What is an earthqauake?
the moving of the plates under the earths surface
How does weathering shape earths surface?
changes by the moving air. when weathering moves things around apperances start to change. then, we change it to by moving things like rocks and grass and we change the earth.
What are most earthquakes cause by?
moving tectonic plates on earths surface
What are plates techonics?
plate tectonics are moving plates under the earths surface
What are quick moving winds that flow high above earths surface?
seasons
What is meaning wind erosion?
Wind erosion, is the process of wearing away of landforms on the earths surface by the action of wind (ie, fast moving air), movement, motion and aggresiveness.
