Fabulous Vocabulous
This word means "All the plants found in a particular area."
What is vegetation
Name 3 elements of the 6 elements that cause weathering.
What are wind, water, ice, plants, gravity and animals.
The movement of rock particles to a new place is called __________________.
What is erosion
The baseword of deposition is ____________.
What are roots.
____________ is sand or small pieces of rock broken down by weathering and deposited on land or at the bottom of water.
Water does this to rocks and rocky surfaces when it weathers them.
What is smooths them out or wears away the edges.
A _____________ is a large mass of slowly moving ice that flows downhill as it melts. It erodes the landforms it scrapes against as it carries sediment away from them.
What is a glacier
Wind, water, ice and gravity eventually put sediment down somewhere after it's been carried away or eroded. This is called __________.
What is depositon.
Chemical weathering from animals is caused by their _____________________.
What are bodily functions or urine.
The process of breaking down or wearing away at rock by water, wind, ice, gravity, animals or plants.
What is weathering
What are chemical and mechanical?
Sand dunes are an example of erosion. They are constantly shifting because of ____________.
What is wind
Rainfall effects vegetation. More rainfall causes ___________ vegetation while less rainfall causes ___________ vegetation.
What are increased and decreased or more and less.
Once rock has been weathered, it is carried away by wind, water, or gravity. This process is known as _____________.
What is erosion
Wind weathers rock when it picks up tiny particles of _________ and _________ and blows them against the surface. It grinds against the surface to wear away at it.
What are running water and rain water.
These waterways are one of the most responsible for deposition.
What are rivers.
Plants help prevent erosion. The main example is in beach areas. Dune grass holds these landforms in shape to prevent beach erosion.
What are sand dunes.
When rock is weathered, the sediment and particles are eroded. _______________ is the term for where these particles and sediment end up in the end.
What is deposition.
Ice can cause weathering. Water seeps into cracks of rock and freezes to form ice. Water _________ (similar to our waistlines at Thanksgiving) when it freezes. Over time, the rocks will eventually break.
Name the three ways gravity causes erosion.
What are landslides, rock falls and mudflows.
This is what forms at the mouth of a river as deposition occurs.
What is a delta?
These landforms are made when wind, ice and water wear away at the center of a rock formation. The rock in the middle is softer and weathers quicker than the edges forming this.
What are natural arches