Wind
Glaciers
Gravity
Rivers
Pot Luck
100
Blowing across loose sediment and removing small particles.
What is Deflation?
100
A large mass of ice and snow moving on land under its own weight.
What is a glacier?
100
A process that wears away surface materials and moves them.
What is Erosion?
100
Water that doesn't soak into the ground or evaporate.
What is runoff?
100
The wind picks up a few particles of sand at a time and deposits them somewhere else.
How do sand dunes move?
200
Windblown sediment striking rocks
What is Abrasion?
200
Terminal, medial, lateral
What are the different moraine types?
200
Any type of erosion that happens as gravity moves materials downslope.
What is mass movement?
200
When water that is flowing as a sheet picks up and carries away sediment.
What is sheet erosion?
200
An area of the US where no rivers flow into any ocean.
What is the GREAT BASIN?
300
Air moving and picking up sediments, only to later deposit them somewhere else.
What is Wind Erosion?
300
Boulders, gravel, and sand being added to bottom and sides of a glacier.
What is plucking?
300
When a mass of material slips down along a curved surface.
What is slump?
300
This pathway for water erodes into gullies
What is a rill?
300
When dissolved calcium reacts with dissolved carbonate this is formed
What is a tufa tower?
400
Deserts and arid regions
Where do sandstorms occur?
400
Debris that glaciers leave when they melt.
What is a till?
400
DAILY DOUBLE -- the part of the book where you can weather symbols.
What is the appendix?
400
Water moving down the same path creates this groove.
What is a channel?
400
The youngest volcanic mountain range in the U.S.
What are the Mono Craters?
500
Higher than 0.5 meters
How high do dust storms rise from the ground?
500
A winding ridge of sand a gravel formed with a glacier melts.
What is an esker?
500
Agents of erosion drop the sediments they are carrying as they lose energy.
What is deposition?
500
Runoffs flow into it.
What is a drainage basin?
500
Most abundant rock type on earth
What is igneous rock?
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