Changing Earths Surface
water erosion/ moving water
waves
glaciers
wind
100
what is a high % of water in a mudflow. a. 20% b.60% c. 75% d.90%
What is a. 60%
100
what are two types of energy
What is kinetic, potenial
100
part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean. a. spit b. longshore drift c. headland
What is c headland
100
two types of glaciers
What is valley and continental
100
wind causes erosion by deflation and abrasion true or false
What is true
200
what is a slow downhill movement. a. creep b. slump c. landslides
What is a creep
200
moving water is a major agent of the weathering that has shaped Earths land surface. true or flase
What is flase
200
what is formed by wave action
What is sandbar
200
what can be found in till five things.
What is clay, silt, sand, gravel, and boulders.
200
what are five states where large loess deposits are found.
What is Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois.
300
material is moved by erosion is deposition true or flase
What is flase sediment.
300
other loads erode from the bottom of sides of the river true or flase
What is flase sediment
300
what are three coastasl features
What is beaches, spits, barrier beaches
300
when more snow falls than melts glaciers are formed. true or false
What is true
300
what may form sand dunes and loess deposits.
What is wind erosion and deposition
400
four types of mass movement
What is landslides, mudflows, slump, creep.
400
a large groove is a a. rill b. gully c. flood plain
What is b gully
400
i form when glaciers leave behind large lakes in long basins
What is a glacial lake
400
i form when glaciers leave behind large lakes in long basins
What is a glacial lake
400
what is a sand dune
What is a deposit of wind-blown sand
500
five agents of erosion.
What is gravity, running water, glaciers, waves, wind.
500
what are three ways that affect how fast the river flows and how much sediment it can erode.
What is a rivers slope, volume of flow, the shape of its streambed.
500
what are five of nine erosional features and depositional features
What is wave-cut cliff, sea cave, headland, sea arch, sea stack, beach,sandbar, longshore drift.
500
when a glacier melts it deposits _ it eroded from the land creating variouse landforms a. till b. silt c. sediment
What is c. sediment
500
loess forms dry soil true or false
What is false fertile soil
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