Landslide Vocabulary 1
A gigantic mudslide causes significant destruction due to too much water or loose soil.
What is a landslide?
The small pieces of land that break down. Solid material that is moved and deposed in a new location.
What is sediment?
The outer layer of a boundary.
What is surface?
This occurs when there is more water than the land can hold.
What is runoff?
This happens when a piece of land shrinks and gets smaller due to wind and water (heavy rains).
What is erosion?
Something that soaks in something. To take in or soak up.
What is absorb?
A natural process that slowly breaks apart or changes rock, such as heat, water, wind, living things, and other natural forces.
What is weathering?
All the plants and greenery in one area.
What is vegetation?
To study something closely and carefully.
What is analyze?
A big effect on something, like a collision.
What is impact?