Catastrophic Events
VOLCANO:
What type of succession would happen after a volcano?
What is primary succession
A large wave caused by an underwater earthquake?
What is a tsunami?
What is Erosion?
What is movie bits of rock or soil from one place to another by gravity, water, wind or ice (glaciers).
What is deposition?
What is the process in which sediments, soil, and rocks are added to landforms such as deltas, flood plains, sandbars, and dunes.
What does Equilibrium mean?
What is balance
WILDFIRE:
What can cause wildfires?
What is people, lightening or the sun.
An extended period without rain?
What is a drought?
What is an example of chemical weathering?
What is (answer will vary)
Oxidation - Iron combines with oxygen making rust
Hydrolysis - Water softens minerals in rocks
Carbonation - Carbon dioxide in rain water creates carbonic acid
What is an example of physical weathering?
What is (answers will vary)
Abrasion - by rapidly moving water, glaciers or wind
Ice Wedging - by freezing and thawing
Plant Roots
Burrowing
Temperature Change
Gravity
What is a rolling terrain covered with pines and oaks?
What is pineywoods?
HURRICANE:
What type of succession would occur after a hurricane?
What is secondary succession.
A storm that forms over warm water and loses energy when it hits land.
What is a hurricane
How are caves carved out?
What is water erosion.
How are canyons formed?
What is weathering, erosion and deposition.
24-28 incehs of rain per year and the soil is mostly wind blown sand.
What is coastal sand plains.
WILDFIRE:
What organism appeared first after a wildfire?
What is grasses.
An event that is a natural part of grassland and prairie land ecoregions?
What is a wildfire?
What is a feature created by wind?
What is
Arches
Sand dunes
Mushroom Rocks
What is a feature created by glaciation (glacier moving downhill)?
U Shaped Valley
Hanging Valley
Horn
Moraine
Cirque
Tarn Lake
Arete
The regions that is located by the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes Ecoregion?
What happens to the plant life immediately after the flood waters recede?
What is the plant life dies from flood waters depositing soil.
Is measured a Richter scale.
What is a earthquake?
What is a events are created by gravity?
What is
Landslides
Mud flows
Slump/Creep
What is the primary agent of erosion?
What is running water.
Many cacti are found here
What is the Desert/Montane Ecoregion