Rivers
The longest river in the world
What is the Nile?
The largest ocean in the world
What is the Pacific?
Glaciers are made of this
What is ice?
The fancy way to describe water falling from the sky
What is precipitation?
Ireland's most common soil type
What is Brown Earth soil?
The beginning of a river
What is the source?
The power of water as it crashes against the coast
What is hydraulic action?
During ice ages, periods where the climate was warmer
What are interglacial periods?
Records wind direction
What is a wind vane?
This makes up 45% of soil
What is mineral particles?
The winding or bending of a river
What is a meander?
The movement of materials carried along the coastline
What is longshore drift?
The lake inside a cirque
What is a tarn?
The average weather an area receives over a long period of time
What is climate?
Fertile ingredient of soil that comes from plant litter
What is humus?
The fan shaped area of land at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
Wire cages filled with stones to prevent erosion
What are gabions?
An example of glaciation in Ireland
What is Glendalough?
Records wind speed
What is an anemometer?
What is gley soil?
The town we have studied that implemented a flood relief scheme
What is Mallow?
The name of the area created by coastal management decisions over 200 years ago
What is North Bull Island?
A U-shaped valley under the sea
What is a fjord?
Records hours of sunlight per day
What is a Campbell Stokes recorder?
High amounts of rainfall that causes soils to lose nutrients
What is leaching?