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Weathering_Deposition_and Erosion
Landforms and How they're formed
100
This is a Landform
What is a natural land shape or feature on the earth?
100
This is a mountain range.
What is a group of mountains that stretch across an area of land?
100
This is a Mesa
What is the flat top of a mountain which comes from the spanish word for table?
100
The moving water makes the river wider.
What is result of moving water eroding away the banks of a river?
100
This is how rain contributes to erosion and deposition.
What is wearing away rock and carrying the sediment away?
200
This is topography.
What is all the kinds of landforms in a certain area?
200
This is a volcano.
What is a mountain made from lava, ash, and other materials of eruptions formed where two plates come together.
200
This is a glacial groove
What are large deep scratches left in rock when glaciers pass over them?
200
Moving water makes the river deeper in this way.
What is eroding away the bottom of the river.
200
This is how the ocean changes landforms.
What is the result of waves crashing against rock along the short and in the ocean?
300
This is a Sand Dune
What is a sand hill shaped and made by wind?
300
This is a relief.
What is the difference between elevations in a landscape.
300
This is a sinkhole.
What is a hole in the ground formed when the roof of an underground cave collapses.
300
Canyons and mesas are formed by this.
What is rain or other forms of moving water wearing away at rock formations over time?
300
Sediment falls out and is deposited when this slows down.
What is the result of moving water slowing down?
400
This is a glacier.
What is a large piece of ice that floats on water?
400
This is a Moraine.
What is a low hill formed by glaciers?
400
This is a landslide.
What are rocks and mud sliding down a steep slope as a result of erosion and gravity?
400
Water slows down when a river meets a body of water and these form.
What is the cause of deltas?
400
This expands when it freezes, and erodes rock creating sediment.
What is the result of water freezing in cracks of rock?
500
This is a mountain.
What is a landform much higher than the surrounding land usually with a pointed top.
500
These are cover crops.
What are crops planted to control erosion and provide nutrients to the soil for future crops?
500
This is a Delta.
What is an area of land formed at the mouth of a river where the river meets a large body of water?
500
This happens when plant roots grow into rocks.
What is the manner in which plants can break rocks apart?
500
This affects the rate at which water erodes and deposits sediment.
What is the role of speed in wind and water's ability to erode and deposit?
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