Changing Earth's Surface
Water Erosion
The Force of Moving Water
Glaciers
Waves
100
Double Jeopardy: How does wind cause erosion?
By deflation and abrasion.
100
True or False: Abrasion creates landforms such as alluvial fans and deltas.
False: Its deposition.
100
What 2 types of energy are there?
Potential and kinetic.
100
What 2 types of glaciers are there?
Continental and valley.
100
What depositional feature looks like a finger?
Spit.
200
What are the four types of mass movement?
Landslide, mudflow, creep, and slump.
200
True or False: The amount of water in an area depends on vegetation.
True.
200
Gravity and the force of moving water causes what to move down stream?
Sediment load.
200
What are the 2 processes by which glaciers erode?
Abrasion and plucking.
200
True or False: A beach is an area of wave-washed sediment along a coast.
True.
300
A creep is the very slow down hill movement of what?
Rock and soil.
300
What is the major agent that has shaped Earth's land surface?
Moving water
300
True of False: Turbulence is the force that opposes the motion of one surface as it moves across another surface.
False: Friction.
300
True or False: When a glacier picks up and rolls rock it's called till?
False:Plucking.
300
What is part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean?
Headland.
400
When water soaks the bottom of soil that is rich in clay what often occcurs?
Slump
400
In this type of land scape caves, deep valleys, and sink holes are common.
Karst topography.
400
Water moves every which way in a type of movement called what?
Turbulence.
400
How do kettles form?
When a depression left in a till by a melting ice fills with water.
400
Double Jeopardy: Wind erosion and deposition may form what 2 things?
Sand dunes and loess deposits.
500
Mudflow is the rapid down hill movement of what?
Water, rock, and soil.
500
What are 5 features that result from erosion along a river?
Valleys, waterfalls, flood plains, menders, and ox-bow lakes.
500
What 3 factors effect how fast a river flows.
Slope, volume of flow, and streambed shape.
500
What forms when the level of the sea rises, filling a valley cut by a glacier?
Fiord.
500
How do waves shape the coast through erosion?
By breaking down rock and transporting sand and other sediments.
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