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Item WE016004: Both the growth of plant roots and the freezing of water can break off pieces of rock from earth’s solid rock layer.

Which of the following can cause pieces of rock to break off from earth's solid rock layer?

  1. Both the growth of plant roots and the freezing of water can break off pieces of rock from earth’s solid rock layer.
  2. The growth of plant roots can break off pieces of rock from earth’s solid rock layer, but the freezing of water cannot.
  3. The freezing of water can break off pieces of rock from earth’s solid rock layer, but the growth of plant roots cannot.
  4. Neither the freezing of water nor the growth of plant roots can break off pieces of rock from earth’s solid rock layer.
Distribution of Responses
Chart showing distrubtion of responses for Item 016004
Students Responding Correctly
Group Correct Total Percent
Overall 243 466 52%
Grades
  6–8 131 271 48%
  9–12 112 195 57%
Gender
  Male10922149%
  Female12923754%
Primary Language
  English21540753%
  Other184243%

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NRC Framework
Grade 5 ESS2.A Water, ice, wind, living organisms, and gravity break rocks, soils, and sediments into smaller particles and move them around.
Notes
See also ESS2.C, Framework p. 184: …ice expansion contributes to rock erosion…