Weathering
Soil
Streams
Glaciers
Wind & Waves
100
The break up of rock in place, no transportation.
What is weathering?
100
The name for soil horizon B.
What is subsoil?
100
The name of the river that created the floodplain we live on.
What is the Fraser?
100
The general name for features formed when material is left behind as a glacier melts.
What is depositional?
100
The erosion type that forms a sand dune.
What is wind?
200
Peeling rock due to removal of overlying rocks.
What is exfoliation?
200
Makes up 45% of basic soil.
What is mineral matter/rock particles?
200
A major river, the longest one, in South America.
What is the Amazon?
200
Long parallel scratches left by rocks imbedded in ice and dragged over other rocks.
What are striations?
200
Of wind and waves, it can carry the larger material.
What are waves?
300
The three main types of weathering.
What are Mechanical/Physical; Chemical; and Biological?
300
The bottom layer of a soil profile.
What is bedrock (R)?
300
The solid material that a stream carries.
What is stream load?
300
Formed when two glaciers become one and the lateral moraines join together.
What is a medial moraine?
300
Soft rock erodes more easily than hard rock forming features like stacks, hoodoos, caves, arches...
What is differential erosion?
400
The corners are eroded off since they are most susceptible to breaking.
What is spheroidal weathering?
400
The soil type that is made up of a combination of sand, silt, and clay.
What is loamy soil?
400
The shape of a river valley in the mountains.
What is V-shaped?
400
Meandering stream inside or under a glacier leaves a winding pile of material when the glacier melts.
What is an esker?
400
A long fetch creates waves of this size.
What is large?
500
The type of weathering when iron substances become rust and weaken the rock.
What is oxidation?
500
Contains 1 mm to 2 mm particles.
What is very course sand?
500
The shallowest side of the stream in a meander.
What is the inside of the curve?
500
Formed when a glacier temporarily pauses while retreating.
What is a recessional moraine?
500
The height of a wave from trough to crest.
What is amplitude?