Lesson 1 - The Erosion-Depostion Process
Lesson 2 - Landforms Shaped by Water & Wind
Lesson 3 - Mass Wasting and Glaciers
Overall - Part 1
Overall - Part II
100
What is the transportation of weathered material from one place to another?
Erosion
100
What are deposits formed windblown sand?
Dunes
100
What is erosion that happens as gravity moves materials downslope?
Mass Wasting
100
What is the main cause of movement that occurs during mass wasting?
Gravity
100
What kind of stream is slow moving, has large meanders, and has deposition on the inside curves?
Old Stream
200
What is the laying down or settling of eroded material.
Deposition
200
What is a C-shaped curve often found in "old" streams?
Meanders
200
The mixture of different-sized sediments that is deposited when a glacier retreats is called ____________.
Till
200
What is a current that flows parrallel to a beach shoreline?
Longshore Current
200
What type of water current is very rapid, rushes down slopes, and can contain waterfalls?
Young Stream
300
The four agents that cause Erosion are gravity, wind, _______________, and ________________.
Water and Glaciers
300
What is the term that describes windblown deposits of silt and clay?
Loess
300
Trees, walls, and fence posts leaning downhill are examples of ____________.
Creep
300
What kind of valley if left behind when a glacier melts?
U-Shaped
300
Landslides, creep, and slump are all examples of __________________.
Mass Wasting
400
Factors that affect the rate of erosion are weather, climate, topography, and ____________.
Rock-Type or Type of Rock
400
What are human made structures that are built on beaches to help prevent coastal erosion from occurring?
Groins
400
What is a pile of angular rocks and sediment usually found at the bottom of a rockfall?
Talus
400
How can farmers reduce wind and water erosion?
Plant Trees Around Farmland
400
What weathering agent dissolves minerals in rocks?
Water
500
What are two processes that reshape Earth's Surface? Hint: Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition are part of these processes.
Constructive and Destructive Processes
500
This can be compared to sandblasting and is a part of wind erosion.
Abrasion
500
What are semicircular depressions that are formed by glacial erosion?
Cirques
500
An _____________ is a deposit formed when river waters empty out onto a flat open plain.
Alluvial Fan
500
Name two examples of depositional environments.
Possible Answers: Swamps, Deltas, Sandbars, Beaches, Alluvial Fans, and the Ocean Floor
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