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100
________________ is the shape and arrangement of the physical features of an area of land. It includes elevation, relief, and landforms.
What is topography
100
• __________is the difference in elevation and slope between the highest and lowest parts of an area of land.
What is relief
100
• There are many different types of landforms. Three major landforms are _____________, _________, and _________.
What is plains, plateaus, and mountains
100
• A __________is a landform with high elevation and high relief.
What is mountain
100
• A landform region is a large area of land that is mainly made up of the __________type of landform.
What is same
200
• _____________is the height above or below sea level.
What is elevation
200
• A ___________is a natural feature or shape on Earth’s surface.
What is landform
200
• A __________is a landform made up of a nearly flat or slightly rolling surface with low relief.
What is plain
200
• A __________is a landform that has high elevation and a broad, flat surface.
What is plateau
200
• Most geologists accept ______________, which states that the same geological processes that operated in the distant past also operate today.
What is uniformitarianism
300
• ___________is the breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals on Earth’s surface.
What is weathering
300
• _______or ___________agents can cause weathering.
What is chemical or physical
300
• ____________weathering is the process of a rock being physically broken into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical
300
• Mechanical weathering causes rocks to get smaller, but does not change the __________composition of rocks.
What is chemical
300
• There are (many or few) agents responsible for mechanical weathering.
What is many
400
• ___________is the wearing away of rock by other rock particles that are carried by water, ice, wind, or gravity.
What is abrasion
400
• ______________is when water seeps into rocks and freezes, causing the expansion of ice to widen and deep the cracks and causing the rock to break.
What is frost wedging
400
• __________weathering is when a rock’s composition changes as it breaks down.
What is chemical
400
• During chemical weathering, rocks change in size, shape, and in __________________.
What is chemical composition
400
• During oxidation, metal combines with _____________to form a new, weaker material.
What is oxygen
500
• _____________rocks allow water to pass through, meaning more surface is being weathered. Therefore, they weather more quickly.
What is permeable
500
• Both mechanical and chemical weathering occur faster in _________climates.
What is wet
500
• Chemical weathering occurs faster at ________temperatures.
What is higher
500
• Weathering creates more ______________, which speeds up the weathering of a rock.
What is surface area
500
• Two or more types of weathering may occur at the ___________time.
What is same
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