Vocabulary
Small pieces of earth.
What is sediment?
This landform is made from the build up of sediment at the end of a river.
What is a delta?
Wind carrying sand stopped blowing and created a sand dune.
What is deposition?
This type of weathering is when larger rocks are broken down into smaller sediments without changing the type of rock.
What is mechanical weathering?
To figure out which side of a landform is steeper, you look for this feature on a topographic map.
What is the contour lines are closer together?
The study of the shape of the land.
What is topography?
This land form is made from a river eroding and flowing in the same area for millions of years.
What is a canyon?
A sharp, jagged rock becomes round rock.
What is weathering?
This type of weathering includes breaking down rocks into sediments and changes the type of rock as it is broken down.
What is Chemical Weathering?
In a u-shaped valley with a river in the middle, like the one on your study guide. This is where you would find the most fertile land.
What is at the bottom of the valley, near the river?
A contour line at sea level would have this value.
What is 0?
Glaciers grind through a mountain and/or hill and leave behind this specifically shaped landform.
What is a u-shaped valley?
Construction and Farming impact this earth process the most.
What is erosion?
This type of weathering occurs when water gets into cracks in the rock, freezes, and expands. This eventually splits the rock apart.
What is ice/frost wedging?
In A10, this is the contour interval for Rock Mountain.
What is 100 m?
These earth process(es) are constructive.
What is deposition?
This is the driving force of erosion and deposition.
What is gravity?
A river curving is caused by this/these earth process(es)?
What are erosion and deposition?
This specific type of weathering causes iron in rock to form rust when exposed to air over time.
What is oxidation?
These are the four agents, or causes, of erosion.
What are wind, water, ice, and gravity?
These earth process(es) are destructive.
What are weathering and erosion?
This landform is made through erosion, making a thin tower of rock.
What is a hoodoo?
Glaciers grind down rock, carry sediments to the bottom of the hill, and create a mound of sediment, called a moraine.
What is weathering, erosion, and deposition?
This type of weathering occurs when the bottom of a glacier scrapes along the ground, causing rocks to break down into sediment and to pile up, making a moraine.
What is abrasion?
In A10, this is the maximum possible height of Rock Mountain.
What is 1699 m?