Waves & Wind
Water/Rivers
Mass Movement
Glaciers
Miscellaneous
100
The energy for waves comes from this.
What is the wind?
100
A stream or river that flows into another stream
What is a tributary?
100
Force that pulls rock and soil down slopes.
What is gravity?
100
A ridge formed by the till left by a glacier where it begins to receed
What is a moraine?
100
A large mass of ice and snow moving on land under its own weight
What is a glacier?
200
When waves erode a layer of softer rock that underlies a layer of harder rock, this forms.
What is a sea arch?
200
A meander that has been cut off from the river.
What is an oxbow lake?
200
Material moved by erosion.
What is sediment?
200
The process by which a glacier picks up rocks.
What is plucking?
200
A wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range.
What is an alluvial fan?
300
The process by which some of the beach sediment moves down the beach with the current.
What is longshore drift?
300
Tiny grooves in the soil formed by runoff.
What are rills?
300
Four types of mass movement.
What are slump, creep, landslide, and mudflow (mudslide)?
300
The two types of glaciers
What are valley and continental glaciers?
300
Sediment deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake builds up this landform.
What is a delta?
400
A deposit of wind-blown sand.
What is a sand dune?
400
The flat, wide area of land along a river.
What is a flood plain?
400
Results in gravestones and fenceposts tilting at odd angles.
What is creep?
400
The mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits directly on the surface.
What is till?
400
The part of the meander (river curve) that erodes faster. (inside/outside)
What is the outside?
500
This is the part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean.
What is the headland?
500
The amount of sediment that a river carries.
What is its load?
500
A kind of mass movement that occurs when rock and soil slide rapidly down a steep slope.
What is a landslide?
500
The type of glacial erosion that causes deep scratches in bedrock.
What is abrasion?
500
The 3 main criteria for being a glacier.
What is made of ice, is formed on land, and moves?
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