A continual process of change
The breaking down of rocks on Earth's surface, chemical or mechanical.
What is weathering?
Pg. 178
The process in which you compare and contrast different land-forms to see what category shaped the land-form.
What is Interpreting a land-form?
pg. 182
In a young stream, this is higher than an old stream. This also helps the water move, or erode sediment.
What is Energy?
pg. 188
Downhill movement of soil or rocks.
-Material moves in bulk as a large mass
-Gravity is the dominate role in this event.
What is Mass Wasting?
Breaks down rocks into tiny pieces called sediment, it does NOT change the chemical makeup.
What is Mechanical Weathering?
Pg. 178
A tall, jagged structure with cuts in the layers of rock is formed by this process.
What is Land-form shaped by Erosion?
pg. 182
A broad C-shaped curve in a stream. This C-shaped curve is seen in mature and old streams.
What is a Meander?
pg. 188
Rapid downhill movement of soil, loose rocks, and boulders. Two examples of this are Rockfalls and mudslides.
What is a landslide?
Breaking down of rocks into new sediment, it DOES change the chemical makeup of a rock.
What is chemical weathering?
Pg. 178
Often flat and low-lying, Creates land-forms such as an Alluvial fan.
What is Land-forms created by Deposition?
pg. 183
A current that flows parallel to the shoreline. This current is what shapes beaches and shorelines.
What is a longshore current?
pg. 189
Mass wasting down a slope or curve, sometimes fast creating ___ or slow creating _____
What is a slump, creep?
What happens to rocks after they are weathered into tiny pieces. This is the removal of a weathered rock from one spot.
What is Erosion?
pg. 179
Melted glaciers leave behind piles of sediment, It can create long land-forms known as Eskers and Moraines. These land-forms are shaped from this.
What is Land-forms created from deposition
pg. 183
This forms when Carbon Dioxide mixes with rainwater, this mixture seeps through soil and forms caves.
What is Acid rain?
pg. 189
A pile of angular rocks and sediment from a rockfall. A pile of rock at the base of a hill after mass wasting.
What is a Talus?
What happens to eroded rock after it has been moved from its original spot. The laying down or settling of eroded material.
What is deposition
pg. 181
The Tepees in the Painted Desert of Arizona, Hoodoos at Bryce Canyon National Park, and the Glacier National Park in Montana were all shaped by this.
What is land-forms created by Erosion?
pg. 182
When sand is moved and deposited from its original spot on a beach, moving with the longshore current that erodes it.
What is Longshore Transportation?
True or false?
Mass wasting is only in specific parts of the world.
What is false?