The movement of sediments from one place to another.
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The amount of water a stream carries in a given amount of time.
Discharge.
100
How are sinkholes formed?
When water seeps underground and make the soil under the surface unstable. When the surface portion of the soil finally collapses it creates a sinkhole.
100
Name 2 things people can do to prevent water erosion.
Answers will vary. Ex. Put drainage pipes to drain the water and put of contention walls to hold the hill in place.
100
How can glaciers erode mountains?
Glaciers slide downhill, dragging boulders and sediments downhill with it.
200
What is deposition?
The process in which eroded materials is dropped.
200
Give an example of water erosion.
Student answer will vary. Ex. Water rushes down a river bring downstream a load of sediment.
200
How are river deltas formed?
When sediments from a river are deposited at at the mouth of a river.
200
Name one thing people can do to prevent wind erosion.
Wind barriers
200
How does gravity affect the landscape?
Answers will vary. Ex. It can cause rocks to fall down a mountain.
300
What is the measure of change in ELEVATION over a certain distance?
Gradient
300
What can cause groundwater to form?
Slightly acidic water breaks through rocks and seeps underground.
300
How are canyons formed?
Rivers carves through soft rock for millions of years.
300
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How can you prevent rockfalls?
Putting up contention fences or nets to hold the rocks in place.
300
How can people help erode the landscape?
Answers will vary.
Ex. When people clear the land to build, wind can pick up the sand and blow it away.
400
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What is the breaking down of rocks into sediments?
Weathering
400
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400
How are beaches formed?
When the ocean pounds the the shoreline, breaking the rocks into sediments called sand.
400
How can people prevent landslides?
Don't build houses on hills, duh...
400
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500
What is the amount of material carried by a stream?
Load
500
What landforms can wind erosion create?
Mushroom rocks,sand dunes, or loess
500
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What is an alluvial fan?
Is a fan shaped landform formed when water from rains washes down a mountain side moving sediments down the mountainside.
500
What's the difference between weathering, erosion, and deposition.
Weathering is the breaking down of sediments. Erosion is the movement of sediments. Deposition is the dropping of sediments at a different location.
500
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