Causes Of
Erosion
Erosion
What are the three main causes of erosion?
What is water, climate, and earthquakes
The geological process when earthen materials are worn away.
What is erosion
What is the most common cause of erosion from climate?
what is rainfall
How do ants cause erosion?
What is building underground nests.
Decomposition
The separation of a substance into simpler substances or basic elements.
How do sheep, cattle, and goats cause erosion by doing what?
What is eating plants and compacting soil with their hooves.
How does Earth cause erosion?
What is shifting plates
This is when humans purposefully clearing forest land.
What is deforestation
To undergo decomposition
What is decay
How does global warming cause erosion?
what is melting glaciers and rising sea levels.
How do earthworms and moles cause erosion?
What is digging burrows.
A geological process where moving water, ice, wind, and waves erode the Earth's surface.
What is denudation
What is the least common cause of erosion?
What is Ice Erosion
Humans can be fined over $1,000 walking through the dunes of these plants. What is the name of this plant?
What is Sea oats
The gradual rubbing away of the surface of a rock.
What is abrasion
The deterioration of rocks, soils, and minerals through contact with water.
Weathering
This plant is very competitive and takes the space of another plant that stops erosion. What is the name of this plant?
What is Black Needlerush