Erosion
Water
Mixed Lessons
Mixed Lessons
Miscelaneous
100
What is the process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces
Weathering
100
What is a loop or bend in a river
What is a meander
100
The atmosphere is primarily made up of these two gases
nitrogen and oxygen
100
How are most winds named?
Most winds are named by the direction they are blowing from
100
Which is most likely to be a cause of chemical weathering? Oxygen/gravity/ice/wind
oxygen
200
What is the moving of material from one place to another?
Erosion
200
What is a large mass of moving ice found in mountains
Alpine glacier
200
What is a landslide that occurs when loose soil and rock are mixed with water
mudslide
200
What is a mound of sand created by the wind
dune
200
The process by which pressure changes cause the top layer of large rock structures to peel away. HINT: Egg
What is Exfoliation
300
What is the dropping of sediment into a new location
deposition
300
What is a large area of flat land near a river that often floods and contains fertile soil
floodplain
300
Which two processes change water into the a gaseous state?
Evaporation and sublimation
300
Narrow zone at the equator where winds are weak
What are the doldrums
300
How do burrowing animals cause physical weathering
They dig and move rocks above ground where they are exposed to more water and wind
400
What is a fan shaped area of land formed by deposition at the mouth of a river
delta
400
What is a small groove or depression in the ground that is formed by flowing water
channel
400
At higher altitudes air pressure...increases/decreases
decreases
400
What is Earth's hydrosphere?
All the liquid water on the planet
400
This is the agent of erosion you would see most in the desert
Wind erosion
500
What are small pieces of weathered rock such as gravel, sand and pebbles
Sediment
500
This is responsible for carving the Grand Canyon
River or water
500
What is it when soil or rock move downhill very slowly. HINT: The trunk of trees can grow curved.
creep
500
At what latitudes are the low pressure belts located
O and 60 degrees latitude in both hemispheres
500
As a ocean current reaches land it is most likely to do what?
The current will change direction
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