Layers are deposited horizontally then tilted to their current position.
How were rocks that are tilted deposited?
100
The type of mass wasting that is responsible for the greatest amount of property damage
What is creep
100
Solid particle of a stream include these
What is bed load and suspended load
100
The name for a glacial landform at the head of a glacial valley
What is cirque
100
The size of particles athat are usually the firsts to be set in motion by wind
What is sand
200
The collision of two continental plates forms them
What is mountains ranges in the interior of a continent?
200
Most mass wasting is enhanced or promoted by
What is weathering
200
Particles move alon a stream bed by these processes
What is rolling, sliding, and saltation
200
Straight scratches on rock surfaces created by glacial abrasion
What are glacial striations
200
Processes that cause erosion by wind
What is abrasion and deflation
300
The process of accretion does this by adding types of crust.
What is the way continents grow and evolve by addition of felsic and mafic crust.
300
After gravity, the major cause of mass wasting
What is slope or gradient
300
This is the promary factor that determines whether water moves by turbulent or laminar flow
What is velocity
300
Unstratified sediment deposited directly by a glacier
What is till (glacial till)
300
The close-fitting mosaic of pebbles, cobbles, and boudlers covering the floor of many semi-arid regions
What is desert pavement
400
Type of fault where the hanging wall goes up relative to the footwall
What is reverse fault
400
Mass wasting is more likely to occur in this type of earth material
What is deeply weathered
400
Streams do most of their erosion, transportation of sediment and deposition of sediment during this event
What is flooding
400
The conditions needed for the development of karst topography
What is humid climate and carbonate bedrock (at a shallow depth)
400
A broad alluvial apron formed by the coalescence of alluvial fans
What is bajada
500
It is a strike slip fault in California
What is the San Adnreas fault
500
The type of climate that mass wasting most likely occurs in
What is humid tropical
500
A delta with long, fingerlike sand bodies, each deposited in a distributary channel that progrades far seaward, such as the Mississippi River in typically formed by this type of domination
What is stream-dominated delta
500
The general term for deposits of calcite and/or aragonite within caves
What is dripstone (speleothems)
500
Long parallel ridges of sand aligned perpendicular to the wind direction