Changing Forces
Erosion
Deposition
Slope and Erosion
Representing Landforms
100
Most common cause of weathering.
What is Moving Water?
100
Carrying away of loose materials by water or wind
What is erosion
100
The process that describes soil being dropped near a mouth of a river
What is deposition?
100
Speed of run-off depends on this.
What is slope
100
A picture that shows the features and details of an area
What is a map
200
Th four factors that cause weathering and erosion
What is water, ice, wind, gravity
200
Landform that is a long depression and is created by running water
What is a valley
200
Low, flat piece of land that are fertile beacuse slow moving water has dropped sediment.
What is a delta?
200
Water will move faster and erode more under these conditions.
What is a steep hill with little vegetation
200
A 3-d representation that shows the workings of an object or system.
What is a model
300
Large, famous landform by weathering action of water
What is the Grand Canyon
300
Type of erosion responsible for creating sand dunes
What is wind erosion
300
Found along a course of the river, where land may flood.
What is a floodplain.
300
Reason wind will move faster over a steep hill than over a gently sloping hill.
What is lack of trees and plants.
300
Photographs taken from the air that show information about the surface and landforms of Earth.
What is an aerial photograph
400
The grinding away of rock by other rock or sand particles
What is abrasion
400
Where the land in a river will erode faster
What is a outside of a meander
400
The melting of snow in the spring may cause this.
What is periodic flooding?
400
It is hard for plants to grow on steep hills because of these two factors.
What is lack of nutrients and water absorption.
400
Lines that show the same elevetion on a topographic map
What are contour lines.
500
Process that breaks down rocks by changing their chemical composition
What is chemical weathering
500
Force that causes materials to move downward and main force of weathering and erosion
What is gravity
500
When a river cuts off one of the loops to flow in a straighter path it forms this landform.
What is an oxbow lake
500
Draining water that carries away soil, sand, and small rocks
What is runoff
500
Sandbars that last over time and form long, narrow pieces of land that are separated from the mainland by water.
What are barrier islands
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