This is the process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another.
What is Erosion
100
What is the major agent of erosion?
What is Running Water
100
What is energy?
What is the ability to do work.
100
What created the great lakes?
What is Glacial Erosion.
100
What is the main way that wind causes erosion?
What is deflation
200
What is sediment?
What is the material moved by erosion
200
After rainfall, the watetr that moves over land is called this.
What is runoff
200
What is the difference between kinetic and potential energy.
What is kinetic energy involves movement of the object while potential is the storing of energy waiting to be used.
200
Name the two types of glaciers?
What is Valley and Continental
200
As the wind makes contact with the water, it transfers what to the water, creating waves?
What is Energy
300
Name 4 mass movements.
What is landslide, mudflow, slump and creep
300
What particle would be deposited first as a river slows down?
Sand, Clay, Silt or Rocks
What is Rocks, they are heavier
300
Where are glaciers formed?
What is in areas that have more snow fall than what melts.
300
What are the two ways that waves erode land?
What is Impact of the waves and abrasion
400
List the five factors that cause erosion.
What is gravity, running water, glaciers, waves and wind
400
List the steps that show how a river forms.
What is raindrops, runoff, rill, gully, stream and river
400
In a curved river, sediment get deposited on the ______ of the curve and sediment erodes on the ____ of the curve.
What is inside, and outside
400
What are the teo processes by which glaciers erode the land?
What is abrasion and plucking
400
List two types of deposits formed by wind erosion and depostion.
What is Sand Dunes and Loess Deposits
500
Name the mass movement that explains why a telephone poll leans downhill.
What is Creep
500
Name the five things that determine the amount of runoff.
What is type of soil, amount of water, vegetation, how poeple use the land and shape of land.
500
What are the four ways that sediment can enter a river.
What is
1.Washes or falls into river by mass movement or runoff.
2. Erodes from the bottom or sides of river.
3. Wind drops sediment into water.
4. Abrasion
500
What type of glacier causes ice ages?
What is Continental Glaciers
500
What are the three landforms created by wave erosion?
What is Sea Caves, Wave cut cliffs and Sea Arch/Sea Stacks