The Force of Moving Water
Water Erosion
Exploring Earths Surface
Waves
Glaciers
100
What is energy?
What is the ability to do or cause change
100
What is a stream?
What is a channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope
100
What is a mountain?
What is a landform with high elevation and high relief
100
What do ocean waves contain?
What is energy
100
What are the two types of glaciers?
What are Continental Glaciers and Valley Glaciers
200
What is the difference between potential energy and kinetic energy?
What is Potential energy is the energy that is stored and can be used later, Kinetic energy is the energy an object has that can do its work.
200
What is a tributary?
What is a stream that flows into a larger stream
200
What are the three main types of landforms?
What are Plains, Mountains and Plateaus
200
How do waves shape the coast?
What is Erosion and Deposition
200
What is an ice age?
What is When continental glaciers cover large parts of earths surface
300
As gravity pulls water down a slope the water _________ energy changes to _________ energy that can do the work
1. Potential 2. Kinetic
300
Name three things through erosion rivers create?
What are Valleys, Waterfalls, Flood plains, Meanders and Oxbox Lakes
300
What are the four spheres?
What are Lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere,and biosphere
300
The energy in waves comes from ______ that blows across the surface?
What is Wind
300
What is till?
What is the mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits directly on the surface
400
Most sediment washes or falls into the river as a result of ________ and ________.
1 Mass Movement 2 Run Off
400
Deposition creates landforms such as_______ and ________?
What are Alluvial Fans and Deltas
400
What is topography?
What is the shape of the land
400
What are the two processes by waves erode the land?
What is Abrasion, impact and the energy in waves can break apart rock
400
What happens when a glacier melts?
It deposits sediment it eroded from the land creating various landforms.
500
________, _________, and __________ affect how fast a river flows and how much sediment it can erode.
1.a rivers slopes 2.volume of flow 3.the shape of its stream bed
500
What is the difference between a stalactite and a stalagmite?
A Stalagmite comes from the floor, A Stalactite comes from the roof
500
Topography is determined by what three things?
What is Elevation, relief and landforms
500
How can waves produce a cliff on a rocky coast?
What happens If they hit a lower part of large rock again and again they make a cliff
500
What are the two processes as glaciers erode the land?
What are Plucking and Abrasion
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