Process
Agent
Land Form
Rapid Changes
Fossil Fuels
100
The breaking down of rock
What is weathering?
100
A Canyon is formed by this Agent of Change.
What is water (a river or flood)?
100
The agent of change for this landform
What is wind?
100
When the ground suddenly starts to shake and destroy buildings
What is an earth quake?
100
What does C.O.N.G. stand for?
What are Coal, Oil and Natural Gas?
200
The pressure of many layers piled on.
What is Compaction?
200
A U-shaped valley is formed by this agent.
What is ice (a glacier)?
200
Was this Canyon, made by Ice, Floods, Heat, or Deposition?
What are floods?
200
a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.
What is a Tsunami?
200
The bottom layer of sedimentary rock is the _____ layer.
What is the oldest layer?
300
The movement of sediment
What is erosion?
300
This agent of change is important in the formation of Sand Dunes.
What is Wind?
300
A U-Shaped Valley is formed by
What is a Glacier (Ice)?
300
a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust. Creates new land
What is a volcano?
300
Formed when dead plant matter decays in swamp water and formed by the heat and pressure of deep burial over millions of years.
What is coal?
400
The gluing of sediments
What is cementation?
400
What agent is responsible for the erosion that occurs in the formation of a delta.
What is water (a river)?
400
Describe the process of ice wedging
Freezing and thawing over and over again and again
400
a mount, hill or ridge of sand that lies behind the part of the beach affected by tides.
What is a Sand Dune?
400
This fossil fuel is formed from organic material (dead plants and animals) mainly deposited as sediments on the seabed and then broken down by heat and pressure and transformed over millions of years.
What is oil and natural gas?
500
The dropping or setting down of sediment in a new location
What is Deposition?
500
What agent is responsible for forming this land arch?
What is wind abrasion?
500
How does a delta form?
What is the deposition of sediments at the mouth of a river?
500
A rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or mountain
What is an avalanche?
500
Natural resources that cannot be replaced after they are used. Once they are depleted they are gone for good.
What are NON-RENEWABLE resources?