Gravity/Water Erosion
(Vocab) What type of mass movement can result in the tilting at odd angles of gravestones and fenceposts?
Creep
(Vocab) The amount of sediment in a river is called its?
load
(Vocab) The till deposited at the edge of a glacier forms a ridge called a?
Moraine
Waves erode the land through impact and?
abrasion
deflation
When a river flows out of a steep, narrow mountain valley, an alluvial fan forms because?
The river water slows down
(Vocab) After rainfall, the water that moves over Earth's surface is called?
runoff
What led to the formation of Long Island in New York City?
a. water erosion
b. mass movement
c. waves erosion
d. glacial depostition
Glacial deposition
longshore drift
What are the two landforms formed by wind abrasion?
sand dunes and loess deposits
What is the force that pulls rock and soil down slopes?
Gravity
(Vocab) A channel along which water is continuously flowing down a hill?
Stream
A glacier forms in an area where more snow falls than?
melts
True or False: The energy of ocean waves comes from the energy of deposition.
False
Hint: the energy comes from wind
The Missouri River can be called a tributary because it?
True or False: The flat, wide area of land along a river is called a meander?
False
Hint: It is a floodplain
True or False: A valley glacier covers much of the island of Greenland.
False
Hint: A continental glacier
How does a sandy beach form? Where does the sand come from.
(Answers will vary)
Waves deposit the sand that make up the beach. The sand comes from rivers that carried particles of rock into the ocean.
Landslides and slump are forms of?
Mass Movement
(Vocab) A meander cutoff from the river by deposition of sediment.
Oxbow Lake
How do glaciers pick up rocks?
Plucking
Be able to describe.
(Vocab) An area of wave washed sediment along a coast
Beach