Potpourri
Vocabulary
Secret Agents
(of Erosion)
Delta Dawn
Mrs. E
100
All rocks are made of these.
What are minerals?
100
This is the breakdown of rock into sediment.
What is weathering?
100
The perceptible natural movement of the air.
What is wind?
100
A landform that occurs when sediment is deposited as the river meets the ocean.
What is a delta?
100
Mrs. E has two of these pets.
What are cats?
200
These large masses of ice can create both erosional and depositional landforms.
What are glaciers?
200
This can be formed from weathered rock, as well as the remains of plant and animals in bodies of water.
What is sediment?
200
The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, as discovered by Newton.
What is gravity?
200
The part of a river that flows into the ocean.
What is the mouth?
200
Where Mrs. E does her favorite hobby.
What is costuming?
300
A change to the landscape that is very slow-moving, unlike a fast mudslide.
What is creep?
300
The process by which wind, water, ice or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another.
What is erosion?
300
A colorless, transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid that is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.
What is water?
300
The type of physical weathering that occurs when the river water causes rocks to rub against each other.
What is rock abrasion?
300
The type of question that annoys Mrs. E.
What is a 'what if' question?
400
The front end of a glacier.
What is a terminus?
400
The process in which sediment is laid down.
What is deposition?
400
A brittle, transparent crystalline solid made from water that is the basis of a glacier.
What is ice?
400
The long finger-shaped stream of water that flows around the land masses of a delta.
What is a distributary channel?
400
The names of Mrs. E's 2 daughters.
What is Caitlin and Lauren?
500
This man-made structure projects two parallel walls into the ocean to keep sand out of the travel paths of ships.
What is a jetty?
500
The two processes that create a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
500
British intelligence agent whose code name is 007.
Who is James Bond?
500
Often near deltas, these landforms are created by river overflow, and make up very rich farmland.
What are floodplains?
500
Mrs. E's favorite villian....
Who is Loki?
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