Vocabulary
What is erosion?
When pieces of rock get weathered away slowly.
This is when a whole bunch of rocks slide down the side of a mountain.
What is a landslide?
This is when there's more glaciers on Earth than usual.
What is an ice age?
This is the substance that causes the erosion that creates caves.
What is water?
This is the empire Justinian was in charge of.
What is the Roman/Byzantine Empire?
What is deposition?
When eroded bits of rock get dropped off somewhere.
This is when a bunch of liquid materials slides down the side of a mountain.
What is a mudslide?
All glaciers start out as this form of precipitation.
What is snow?
This is the type of rock that gets dissolved to form caves.
What is limestone?
This is the plague that hit Justinian’s empire while he was in control.
What is the bubonic plague/Plague of Justinian?
This is another term for drift.
What is till?
This is when an entire part of a mountain falls down, all in one piece.
What is a slump?
This is what it’s called when glaciers pick up rock as they move across the landscape.
What is plucking?
This is a tragic event that can happen when caves don’t form far enough underground.
She was Justinian’s wife.
Who was Theodora?
What is uniformatarianism?
The idea that all the processes going on Earth right now have always been happening.
This is when rocks slowly fall down a gentle slope.
What is a slump?
This is the name for the holes glaciers leave in the ground, that usually become lakes.
What is a kettle?
This is the acid that rain can form into when it mixes with carbon dioxide in the air.
What is carbonic acid?
This was the famous church Justinian had built, which still stands today.
What is the Hagia Sofia?
Explain the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering.
Mechanical weathering is a physical change, chemical weathering is a chemical change.
This mountain has a famous example of a slump when its volcano went off in 1980.
What is Mount St. Helens?
What is the name for this area of the Midwest, near Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, where glaciers never hit during the last Ice Age, making it unusually hilly?
What is the Driftless Area?
Stalactites and stalagmites form because water droplets leave behind deposits of this substance.
What is calcium carbonate?
This is the city Justinian was put in charge of, after hundreds of thousands died in an earthquake.
What is Antioch?