Water Erosion
This water motion causes materials from the Earth to move.
What are waves?
Wind erosion carries particles of this size.
What is small?
Rivers flow into large bodies of water which are not flowing, and sediment stops moving forming a _______.
What is a delta?
The process in which ___________ is carried away and deposited.
What is sediment?
This system shapes the geosphere as it moves.
What is the hydrosphere?
T/F: Near the ground the pressure from the snow above causes some of the ice to freeze.
What is False?
These sheets of ice slowly change the surface of the Earth.
What are glaciers?
This occurs when wind moves sand, soil, or rock.
These small particles are carried away during the process of erosion
What is sediment?
What is a place where floods easily reach and deposit sediments?
What is a floodplain?
This makes up the Earth's hydrosphere, in two forms.
What is all of the liquid all solid water on Earth?
Weathering is the breaking down of rock by these kinds of forces.
What are natural forces?
(wind, rain, or ice)
This process of the water cycle happens after evaporation but before precipitation.
What is condensation?
This process happens when wind slows down or meets an obstacle.
What is deposition?
Erosion is the process that changes the ______ of the land.
What is shape?
_______ is the last form of erosion we have talked about that causes deposition. The other three forms include wind, sea, and glaciers.
What are rivers?
Or
What is running water?
The hydrosphere includes this cycle on Earth.
What is the water cycle?
These landforms are what most natural bridges or sea arches start out as.
What are caves?
This can be caused by winds and waves from a hurricane forcing water onshore.
What is a storm surge?
These natural structures can slow or stop wind erosion.
What are trees?
Erosion occurs after this process.
What is weathering?
The laying down of sediment carried by ______, flowing water, the sea or ice.
What is wind?
This is caused by glaciers melting and leaving behind rocks.
What is glacial debris?
The process of erosion is part of the ____ cycle.
What is rock?
Both of these can be a result of water interacting with rock formations.
Canyon forms
Sediment forms
Wind erosion normally moves this substance.
What is sand? (or dirt)
Erosion causes these types of changes to the surface of the Earth.
What are physical changes?
Deposition is studied in this kind of Science.
Hint: think of the suffix -ology
What is geology?
Glaciers can form mountains and make _______.
What are Lakes?
This is another name for sediment.
What are minerals?