Mass Movement
Rivers
Force of Moving Water
Glaciers
Other Chapters
100
Landslides, Mudflows, Slumps, and Creeps
What are the four types of mass movement?
100
A bird foot delta
What is the Mississippi delta
100
Potential and kinetic
What are the two types of energy
100
Any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land
What is a glacier
100
The force pushing on an area or surface
What is pressure
200
Slow downhill
Creeps are the very ________ movement of rock and soil
200
The stream or river that flows into a larger river
What is a tributary
200
When instead of moving downstream, the water moves every which way
What is turbulence
200
Continental and valley
What are the types of glaciers
200
Clastic rock
What is a sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragments squeeze together
300
Landslides
What is the most destructive mass movement
300
Give yourself 300 points!
Give yourself 300 points!
300
Energy
What is the ability to do work or cause change
300
When a glacier picks up rock as it flows over land
What is plucking
300
The three types of evidence for sea-floor spreading
What is molten material, drilling samples and magnetic strips
400
Gravity
What is the force that moves rock and other material downhill
400
Oxbow lake
What is a meander that has been cut off
400
Load
What is the amount of sediment a river carries
400
Till
What is a mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits directly onto the surface
400
It measures wind speed
What is the purpose of an anemometer
500
Water, rock, and soil
What is a mudslide made of
500
The 5 factors determining the amount of runoff in an area
What is the amount of rain the area receives, the vegetation, the soil type, the land's shape, and the way people use the land
500
The factors that determines the power of a river to cause erosion and carry sediments
What is slope, volume, and shape
500
10,000 years ago
When glaciers finally retreated
500
The three types of marine climates
What is marine west coast, humid subtropical, and Mediterranean
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