Causes
What are the three main causes of erosion?
What is wind, water, and ice
How does littering cause erosion?
What is disrupting the flow of water in rivers and streams.
What is the definition of erosion?
The Gradual destruction or diminution of something.
What is the most common type of erosion caused by climate?
What is Water Erosion
These animals build burrows which cause erosion because the burrows take up space in the ground. Name two animals that cause erosion by burrowing?
what are Earthworms and Moles
How does loss of vegetation cause erosion?
What is not enough roots keeping the soil intact
How does mining cause erosion?
What is tunnels collapsing causing dirt to go downhill.
To erode the base or foundation of a rock's formation.
Undermining
How does wind cause erosion?
What is transportation and deposition of soil
How sheep, cattle, and goats cause erosion?
What is eating to many plants and compacting soil {this leads to loss of topsoil}.
How does gravity cause erosion?
What is Pulling sediments and rocks downhill.
How has global warming affected erosion?
What is melting glaciers and more humidity.
The Process of corroding metal, stone or other materials.
What is Corrosion.
When temperatures start to heat up that cause's erosion, how?
This snail eats fungi off of the grasses by cutting the plant open which kills it. This causes erosion, what is the name of this snail?
What is a periwinkle snail
How does Earth cause erosion?
what is Earth's shifting plates
What is the definition of deforestation?
The purposeful act of clearing forested land
The state or process of decomposition.
What is decay
What is the definition of weathering?
The action of weather conditions in altering the color, texture, composition, or form of exposed objects.
This competitive plant lives in the marshes and tries to outcompete other plants to grow which helps cause erosion. What is the name of this plant?
Black Needlerush
This type of erosion is the least common type you will find. What is the type?
What is Ice Erosion.
Humans can be charged up to $1,000 if caught doing what to this plant?
What is walking through its dunes
What is the definition of abrasion?
The process of scraping or wearing something away
Climate causes this type of erosion to occur when a thin layer of soil is removed from the surface. What type of erosion is this?
What is Sheet Erosion
This plant has an invasive nature and spreads quickly and is a reason for erosion happening. What is the name of this plant?
What is a Ditch Lily