Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
Catastrophic Events
Watersheds
100
Acid Rain
What is the most likely source of chemical weathering in limestone?
100
Moving water
What is the major agent of erosion in nature?
100
Deposition
What is the process called when natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another?
100
Wind and water, but especially water from storm surges
What is the major cause of damage for a hurricane?
100
Watershed
What is an area of land that catches precipitation and drains or seeps into surface or groundwater called?
200
Frost Wedging
What is the specific term for physical weathering that involves freezing and thawing in the cracks of rock?
200
More
If a river flows faster, than how much sediment could it carry?
200
Decreased velocity of water
What is the cause of deposition on the inside curve of a meandering stream?
200
Wind
What is the major cause of damage from a tornado?
200
Pollution
What is the danger of pouring turpentine down the storm drain?
300
Peanut Butter Cookie
What is the example that Mrs. Miller used to model WED?
300
Wind and water erosion
What is the reason that Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston have smoother coastlines on the Gulf side and not on the bay side?
300
Delta
What is the landform that develops over time as a river enters a larger body of water?
300
Change Earth's crust
What do natural hazards that can cause catastrophic events result in?
300
Salty water
What is the type of water that can move in from the ocean during storm surge flooding into a watershed?
400
Sediment
What is the material that is created when weathering is totally successful?
400
Water, wind, ice, and gravity
What are the best ways in which erosion can take place?
400
Oxbow Lake
What is the result of a meandering river over a long period of time changing its course during a flood and taking the path of least resistance?
400
Drowning
What is the major damage from storm surge flooding?
400
Both surface and groundwater
Where does the water go when snow on top of a mountain melts?
500
Wind
What is the agent that weathers rock in the desert and creates beautiful, natural sculptures?
500
Glacial valley
What is the manner of erosion that takes place with a glacier?
500
Avalanche
What is the deposition of snow that is sudden and usually devastating?
500
No beaches
What is the result of Hurricane Ike to Galveston?
500
Liquid surface water
What is a direct source of groundwater?
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