Glaciers
What type of glacier smooths landscape and flattens mountains?
Continental Glaciers
When do mudslides most occur?
After heavy rainfall
What is an underground stream that flows through rock and sediment?
An aquifer
The movement of weathered rock, material from one place to another by water, ice, or gravity.
Erosion
What is the most significant cause of erosion on Earth?
Running Water
What are big boulders left behind after a glacier moves through?
Erratics
Name three examples of erosion by gravity.
Landslides, mudslides, rock falls
Give two examples of erosional landforms caused by running water.
Canyons and valleys
Underground rock slowly dissolving to form a cave is an example of which type of weathering?
Chemical Weathering
This rock type of rock is easily broken down by carbonic acid in ground water.
Limestone
What is the sharp, angular peak formed on a mountain called?
Horn
Give three examples of mass movement
Slump, creep, landslide, etc.
Give 1 example of a depositional landform caused by running water.
Delta
The process that breaks down rocks and other materials on Earth’s surface is called...
Weathering.
How are sand dunes formed?
Wind erosion
What type of glacier erodes the land into a broad, U-Shaped valley?
Alpine Glacier
What is the type of weathering where loose particles are transported by wind/water/glaciers and scratch other rocks?
Abraision
Stalactites and stalagmites are examples of what type of landform in caves?
Depositional
Freezing and thawing are examples of what type of weathering?
Mechanical Weathering
What type of glacier covered part of Indiana during the last ice age? *Hint* what type of glacier makes up land masses?
Continental Glacier
What is produced when deposits are carried on the sides and front of glacial ice?
Glacial Moraine
Which type of mass movement occurs very slowly?
Creep
Why are so many river sediments (gravel and pebbles) rounded?
Abrasion
What is the process where rocks and sediments are dropped in a new location?
Deposition
Deep grooves carved into the rock of a mountain is most likely caused by what agent of erosion
Glaciers