Some Basics
Water Erosion
Force of Moving Water
Ice, Ice, Baby
Waves and Wind
100
The material moved by erosion.
What is sediment?
100
The major agent of erosion that has shaped Earth's land surface.
What is moving water?
100
The ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
100
A large mass of ice that moves slowly over land.
What is a glacier?
100
The energy that causes waves.
What is wind?
200
Weathering, ____________, and deposition act together in a cycle that wears down and builds up Earth's surface.
What is erosion?
200
Water that is not absorbed, but instead moves across Earth's surface.
What is runoff?
200
The type of energy a bike at the top of a hill has.
What is potential energy?
200
A glacier that covers much of a continent or large island.
What is a continental glacier?
200
By itself, the weakest agent of erosion.
What is wind?
300
The force that moves rock and other materials downhill.
What is gravity?
300
As runoff travels, it forms tiny grooves in the soil called rills - as rills flow into one another and grow larger they form _____________.
What are gullies?
300
The energy an object as due to its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
300
A long, narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up high in a mountain valley.
What is a valley glacier?
300
Landforms created by wave erosion.
What are headlands, sea caves, wave-cut cliffs, sea arches, and sea stacks?
400
The different types of mass movement.
What are landslides, mudflows, slump, and creep?
400
Features created through erosion by rivers.
What are valleys, waterfalls, flood plains, meanders, and oxbow lakes?
400
The wearing away of rock by a grinding action.
What is abrasion?
400
Glaciers can form only in an area where more snow _________ than ________.
What is falls than melts?
400
Coastal features created by the deposited sediment of waves.
What are beaches, spits, barrier beaches, and sandbars?
500
The process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another.
What is erosion?
500
Landforms created by this process include alluvial fans and deltas.
What is deposition?
500
The amount of sediment a river carries.
What is its load?
500
The two processes by which glaciers erode the land.
What are plucking and abrasion.
500
The process by which wind removes surface materials.
What is deflation?
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