Erosion
the action of surface processes that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location.
What is erosion?
The largest drainage basin in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River System?
A man made lake.
What is a reservoir?
a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.
What is the ocean?
Age of Earth
What is 4.5 billion years?
The vertical increase in elevation of land.
What is uplift?
A topographic region in which all water drains to a common area.
What is a drainage basin?
Flat area along the sides of a river that is regularly replenished with fresh sediment.
What is a floodplain?
Area between the coast of a continent and the abyssal plain where terrigenous sediment accumulates.
What is a continental margin?
a layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust.
What is a mantle?
The main cause of erosion on the Moon.
What are impacts?
The line that separates neighboring drainage basins. On rugged land, it lies along topographical ridges, and may be in the form of a single range of hills or mountains.
What is a drainage divide?
Are at the mouth of a river where lots of sediment is deposited, forming new land.
What is a delta?
an underwater feature found between the continental slope and the abyssal plain. This feature can be found all around the world, and it represents the final stage in the boundary between continents and the deepest part of the ocean.
What is the continental rise?
an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
What is geology?
The geomorphic process by which soil, sand, regolith, and rock move downslope typically as a solid, continuous or discontinuous mass, largely under the force of gravity, but frequently with characteristics of a flow as in debris flows and mudflows.
What is mass wasting?
A landlocked body of water that does not drain to the ocean.
What is a salt lake?
Sediment from land (crushed up rocks).
What is terrigenous sediment?
The flattest, smoothest, and least explored regions on Earth.
What is the abyssal plain?
an event approximately 541 million years ago when most major animal phyla appeared in the fossil record.[2][3] It lasted for about 20[4][5]–25[6][7] million years. It resulted in the divergence of most modern metazoan phyla.[8] The event was accompanied by major diversification of other organisms.
What is the Cambrian Explosion?
Rock type at the Grand Canyon.
What is sedimentary rock?
Drainage basin ELHS is in.
What is the Altamaha.
Main type of sediment found in the abyssal plains.
What is biogenous sediment?
An underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics.[1] It consists of various mountains linked in chains, typically having a valley known as a rift running along its spine. This type of oceanic mountain ridge is characteristic of what is known as an 'oceanic spreading center', which is responsible for seafloor spreading.
What is a midocean ridge?
Drainage basin Downtown Atlanta is in.
What is the Chattahoochee, or Apalachicola, basin?