Erosion
This is the removal and transport of material from one place to another.
What is erosion?
This landform is a series of islands relatively close together.
What is a archipelago?
These landforms protect us from harsh sea conditions by providing a barrier.
What are barrier islands?
This is the process of breaking down rocks.
What is weathering?
This is when sediments are moved and deposited or “dropped off."
What is deposition?
Name one way glaciers cause erosion.
Abrasion or plucking.
A body of water that is partly enclosed by land (and is usually smaller than a gulf).
What is a bay?
Why shouldn't you trample the sea oats at the beach, or walk off the trails at Honeymoon island?
This type of weathering is breaking materials down by natural or physical processes.
What is mechanical or physical weathering?
These factors act together in a cycle that wears down and builds up Earth’s surface.
What is weathering, erosion, and deposition?
A type of mass movement.
What is a rockslide, mudslide, landslide, slump, creep etc.
This landform is caused by a river removing the rocks and soil from the land underneath it, creating a deeper and deeper area away from the surface.
What is a canyon?
Florida has over 11 million acres of this landform, which is often found between terrestrial and aquatic areas.
What are wetlands?
This occurs when minerals are chemically changed, causing them to dissolve or change to another mineral.
What is chemical weathering?
This is a type of landform caused by wind erosion and deposition.
What is a sand dune?
Any type of erosion when gravity moves materials down a slope.
What is a mass movement?
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses.
What is an Isthmus?
While this landform is not exclusive to Florida, it is relatively common due to the limestone bedrock that Florida sits on. It is primarily caused by erosion and weathering.
What is a sinkhole?
How does the wind cause abrasion?
The wind picks up small materials and blows them against a structure.
This is the process where wind blows loose sediment, removing small particles
What is deflation?
These are the five agents of erosion.
What are gravity, wind, running water, glaciers, and waves.
Flat lands that have only small changes in elevation.
WHat is a plain?
What are the 3 land regions of Florida?
Northern Highlands, Coastal Lowlands, Central Highlands
How do glaciers cause abrasions?
They drag rocks across the surface of the land.
What has Miss Bailey deposited in her coffee cup?
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