Water
Wind
Waves
Glaciers/ice
Gravity
100
U shaped, and V Shaped
Running water that erodes the sides of canyons can create either ________ valleys or _________ valleys.
100
Abrasion and Deflation.
What are the two variations of wind erosion?
100
Wave Action erodes the rocks.
When waves hit the rocks and pieces of the rocks fall off. What is that called?
100
A landslide with snow.
What is an avalanche?
100
Mechanical weathering is an agent of gravity.
Gravity is an agent of what sort of weathering?
200
Runoff
_________ is the major agent of the erosion that has shaped Earth's surface.
200
If wind erosion damages farming land it will make it un-fertile.
If wind erosion damages farming land, what will happen to the soil and the land?
200
Coastal erosion are produced by waves in oceans.
Waves in oceans and other large bodies of water produce _______
200
Ice is a stronger erosive power than water.
Which erosive power is stronger? Ice or Water
200
This process occurs when material moves slope due to the pull of gravity.
What is mass movement?
300
Amount of rain, Amount of Vegetation, Type of soil, Shape of the land, How people use the land.
The amount of runoff in an area depends on five factors. What are they?
300
You will find erosion in a lot of deserts.
Which is the most frequent places where you will find a lot of wind erosion?
300
Spit is one example what it can form.
What can longshore drift form?
300
Plucking and abrade are the two erosive functions.
Glaciers have two erosive functions, what are they?
300
Water, rocks, and soil are in mudflows.
What are the three major "mixtures" that are in mudflows?
400
A meander that has been cut off from the river.
How does an Oxbow Lake form?
400
Aeolian erosion is another name for wind erosion.
Wind erosion by wind is also know as ________
400
Longshore drift.
What is the transportation of sediments along a coast at an angle to the shoreline.
400
Plucking is the answer to the definition.
Entering cracks under the glacier, freezing, and breaking off pieces of rock that are then transported by the glacier. What is the word?
400
Landslides can be really destructive.
What is the most destructive kind of mass movement?
500
Sediments are deposited in an alluvial Fan
Sediments are deposited in an _______, a wide, sloping deposit formed when a stream leaves a mountain range.
500
Sand dunes are partially made by wind erosion.
Wind erosion is partially responsible in the making of ______ in deserts
500
Erosion causes the remove of sand, and deposition causes the addition of sand.
At a shoreline what does deposition cause and what does erosion cause?
500
Abrasion is the answer to the definition.
Cutting into the rock under the glacier, scooping rock up like a bulldozer and smoothing and polishing the rock surface. What is this action called?
500
It ressembles to an avalanche but more slowly and not with snow and ice.
What does mass movement resemble to?
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