Erosion and Deposition
Erosion is the process of wearing down and carrying away _____________.
Rocks
What type of mass movement happens very slowly?
Creep
_______ is a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
Humidity p. 312
_____________ is the place where an organism lives and obtains all the things it needs
Habitat
Which motion causes day and night?
Rotation
What is the process that breaks down rock and other substances?
Weathering
What are the four types of mass movement?
landslides, mudflows, slumps, and creep
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Coriolis effect causes the currents to curve _________.
Clockwise
What are the 3 major parts of the water cycle are _______________.
Condensation, Evaporation, Precipitation
In the water cycle, water moves between land, living things, bodies of water on Earth’s surface and_____________.
atmosphere
Weathering, erosion, and deposition act together in a cycle that wears down and builds up ____________________.
Earth's Surface
Moving water is the major agent of _______________ that has shaped Earth’s land surface.
Erosion
_______ are bands of high-speed winds about 10 km above Earth's surface.
Jet Streams p. 327
The name for the highest part of a wave is the ____________.
Crest
A deposit that hangs like an icicle from the roof of a cave is known as a _________.
Stalactite
_________ refers to the wearing away of rock by rock particles carried by water, ice, wind, or gravity .
Abrasion
Which feature typically contains water only during a rainstorm and right after it rains?
When surface waters in the eastern Pacific are colder than normal, a climate event known as ________ occurs.
La Niña
Fossil fuels take hundreds of millions of years to form, and therefore are considered ____________ energy sources.
nonrenewable resources
Cumulus clouds are clouds that look like cotton, these clouds mean _______ weather.
Fair
The oxygen gas in air is an important causes of _____________________.
Chemical Weathering
The process by which wind removes surface materials is called ____________.
Deflation p.127
A rush of water that flows rapidly back to sea through a narrow opening is called _______.
Rip Current
What is the rapid downhill movement of a mixture of water, rock and soil?
Mudflow
Most coastal areas have _______ high tides and _______ low tides each day
2 & 2