Erosion & Weathering
Rivers
Glaciers
Watersheds
Misc.
100
This type of weathering occurs when acids are involved
What is chemical weathering?
100
A flowing body of water like a river
What is a stream?
100
This is not found on your stove, but is a hole in the ground left behind by a part of a glacier that got stuck in the ground
What is a kettle or kettle lake?
100
This separates different watersheds
What is a divide?
100
Bent trees and a slowly moving cemetery are often seen with this type of mass movement
What is soil creep?
200
This type of weathering doesn't involved chemicals.
What is chemical weathering?
200
Where in the cross section of a straight river is the flow fastest?
What is near the top in the center?
200
This part of a glacier flows the fastest
What is the top and center?
200
When two streams come together, the smaller one is called this
What is a tributary?
200
The amount of water in a river
What is discharge?
300
This mineral (type of rock) is easily chemically weathered by acid
Limestone (and marble)
300
Water in a curved river bend flows the fastest here
What is near the top on the outside
300
This is a bunch of rock and other debris left behind by a glacier - it is unsorted (all different sizes of rocks are found here)
What is a moraine?
300
When a water meanders, it may form these, which are natural walls that prevent water from leaving the flood plain
What are levees?
300
This type of soil has three layers
What is mature soil?
400
This type of physical weathering occurs when wind or waters causes something to be worn away
What is abrasion?
400
In a meandering river, this is how sediment tends to move (other than downstream)
What is from the outside of a bend to then inside of a bend?
400
This type of glacier covers a wide area
What is ice-sheet or continental glacier?
400
When wind blows sand from between rocks, it is called this
What is pavementing or deflation?
400
When particles are being dissolved (e.g., chemical weathering), particles of this size dissolve the fastest
What is small?
500
An example of this type of chemical weathering is rusting
What is oxidation?
500
This is formed in a valley by a river that wanders from side to side.
What is a meander or meandering river?
500
A river or lake formed by a glacier is likely to be shaped like this letter
What is U?
500
If someone put a telephone pole, the most wind abrasion would be found where on it?
What is the bottom right above the sand?
500
This type of physical weathering is more common in NYC than in Florida
What is frost action?
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