Changing Earth's Surface
Rivers
Water
Glaciers
Waves
100
This is the process in which sediments settle out of the wind or water carrying them.
Deposition
100
This is a landform formed when a meander is cut off from the rest of the river.
Oxbow lake
100
This term refers to all the remaining water that moves over Earth's surface.
Runoff
100
This type of glacier covers a very large amount of land (Antarctica).
Continental glacier
100
This energy source causes waves to form.
Wind
200
This is the natural force that moves rock and other sediments downhill.
Gravity
200
This term refers to any stream or river that flows into another stream or river.
Tributary
200
This is the greatest erosional factor (especially in CA).
Moving water
200
This term refers to the process in which glaciers move and pick up rocks and other sediments.
Plucking
200
This process refers to water picking up sediments causing them to erode other sediments (can happen with sediments in wind, too).
Abrasion
300
This is the process in which natural forces move sediments from one place to another.
Erosion
300
This is a depositional landform forming when rivers or streams flow into a non-flowing water body and drop their sediments.
Delta
300
This is the water found underneath Earth's surface.
Groundwater
300
This is the mixture of sediments that glaciers collect and deposit on Earth's surface.
Till
300
This process refers to waves hitting shorelines at angles causing interesting types of deposition.
Longshore drift
400
This is the most destructive of all types of mass movement.
Landslides
400
This term refers to a bend or loop in a river.
Meander
400
This is a flat, wide area of land that collects water during rainfall or flooding (the Yolo Bypass in Sacramento, for example).
Flood plain
400
This type of valley is formed when a glacier erodes and flows slowly downhill.
U-shaped
400
True or False. A sea arch can form when all the rock around the sea arch is harder and resisted erosion.
False (the sea arch was harder rock and resisted erosion)
500
This type of mass movement is so slow you cannot see it happening; you can only see its affects (bent tree trunks and leaning fence posts).
Creep
500
This type of valley is formed as rivers flow quickly through steep, mountainous terrain.
V-shaped
500
Which area would collect a higher amount of runoff: a city or forest?
City
500
This landform is formed when sea water fills in a U-shaped valley created by a glacier.
Fiord
500
This depositional landform is created when longshore drift carries sediments out to form a finger-like projection.
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