Changing Earth's Surface
Water Erosion
Waves and Wind
Glaciers
General Vocabulary
100
The movement of pieces of rock and other materials on Earth's surface.
What is erosion?
100
The area where a river flows into a lake or an ocean.
What is a delta?
100
It is the main cause of erosion along the coast that breaks down rock and transports sand and other sediment.
What is waves.
100
These are the two types of glaciers.
What is continental glaciers and valley glaciers? 100 extra points if you can define each term.
100
The time in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of Earth's surface.
What is the Ice Age?
200
The dropping of sediment.
What is deposition?
200
Rainfall that does not soak in but runs over the ground.
What is runoff?
200
It is the energy from waves that moves across the water's surface.
What is the wind?
200
It is a huge chunk of ice that moves slowly over the land.
What is a glacier?
200
A force that moves rocks and other materials downhill; the force that pulls objects toward each other.
What is gravity?
300
When a mass of rocks and soil rapidly slips down a steep slope and is different than a landslide because it moves down the slope in one large mass.
What is slump?
300
The main cause of of erosion that has shaped the Earth's surface.
What is water running downhill?
300
These are the three coastal features that are formed by waves depositing sediment.
What are beaches, spits, and barrier beaches? 100 extra points of you can define each term.
300
These are the three landforms that are created when a glacier melts and it deposits the sediment that it eroded from the land.
What is till, moraine, and kettle? 100 extra points if you can define each term.
300
The part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean.
What is a headland?
400
The three processes that work together in a cycle that wear down and build up Earth's surface?
What is weathering, erosion and deposition? Extra 100 points define each process.
400
A river creates these five land formations.
What is valleys, waterfalls, flood plains, meanders, and oxbow lakes? Extra 100 points each if you can define each type of land formation.
400
These are the two types of wind erosion.
What is deflation and abrasion? 100 extra points if you can define each term.
400
These are the two processes by which glaciers erode the land.
What is plucking and abrasion? 100 extra points if you can define each term.
400
A deposit of wind blown sand.
What is a sand dune?
500
These are the four types of mass movement.
What are landslides, mudflows, slump, and creep? Extra 100 points if you can define these terms.
500
The three characteristics that affect how fast the river flows and how much sediment it can erode.
What is slope, volume, and the shape of the streambed?
500
One forms if sediment is sand and the other forms if sediment is tiny pieces of soil.
What is the difference between sand dune and loess (LES) deposits? 100 extra points if you can tell what they have in common.
500
One move slower and is very wide, while the other moves fast and is long and narrow.
What is the difference between a continental glacier and a valley glacier?
500
A small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left in glacial till.
What is a kettle?
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