Multiple Choice
True/ False
Short Answer
Fill in the Blank
Vocab
100
What is the effect of a heavy rainfall when soil on a hill slides to the bottom? (Landslide, mudflow, slump, creep)
Mudflow
100
True or False: A deposit of wind-blown sand is called a sand dune.
true
100
How do glaciers form?
They form when more snow falls than melts.
100
A ______ is a channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope.
stream
100
Define: Glacier
A large mass of ice that moves slowly over land.
200
What is the material moved by erosion called? (deposition, sediment, erosion, mass movement)
Sediment
200
True or False: The process by which wind removes surface materials is mass movement.
False, deflation.
200
When do glaciers deposit sediment?
When they melt.
200
A glacier picks up rocks in a process called _______
plucking
200
Define: Horn
A sharpened peak
300
________ is any one of several processes by which gravity moves downhill. (Creep, sediment, mass movement, deposition)
Mass Movement
300
A cone-shaped deposit that rises from the floor of a cave is called a stalactite.
False, Stalagmite
300
What are two ways in which waves erode the land?
Impact, abrasion.
300
The sediments deposited directly by a glacier are called _______
till
300
Define: Moraine
Mounds or ridges of till
400
What is energy that is stored away for later called? (kinetic energy, potential energy, abrasion, plucking)
potential energy
400
A flood plain is the land area from which a river and its tributaries collect water.
true
400
How do waves change to cause water to erode land along the shoreline?
They bend as they come near the shore and cause friction.
400
sharp ridges separating cirques are ________
Arete
400
Fine sediment deposited by wind in layers
loess
500
the energy an object has due to its motion is called ________ (energy, kinetic energy, turbulance, potential energy)
Kinetic Energy
500
Water removes sand and other sediment from the ground by the process of deflation.
false, wind.
500
How does desert pavement form?
The wind blows away small particles and material that is too heavy remains there.
500
The movement of water every which way is _________
turbulence
500
A type of landscape in which caves, deep valleys, and sinkholes are common.
karst topography
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