Weathering
How fast weathering happens. (Slowly or quickly?)
What is slowly?
The volume of running water effects how much____can be carried.
What is sediment?
What deposited sediment looks like, when deposited by a river.
What is smooth and sorted together by size?
An agent that carves valleys into a U-shape.
What are glaciers?
A solid or mass that is transported then deposited at the bottom of any liquid.
What is sediment?
Agent that is blown in the wind that weathers away rock.
What is sand?
Barriers and rocks can be used by people to reduce the effects of______.
What is erosion?
What deposited sediment looks like when deposited by a glacier?
What is scattered and sharp?
An agent that carves valleys into a V-shape.
What is a river?
The process or action of depositing sediment onto a surface
What is deposition?
Two examples of plants that chemically weather away rock.
What are moss and lichens?
What would happen if there was no gravity.
What is no sediment?
The first stage of deposition.
What is erosion and deposition?
Something that is commonly found in valleys.
What are rivers?
The process or action of eroding by wind, water, or natural agents.
What is erosion?
A type of weathering involving a chemical change in at least some of the minerals within a rock.
What is chemical weathering?
Which way sediment generally moves.
What is downhill?
The first stage of deposition?
What is the breaking down of sediment?(Where it comes from.)
Two factors that change the amount of water in a river valley.
What is rain and snow melt?
To change the appearance of something over a long period of time.
What is weathering?
A type of weathering involving physical breaking of rocks into smaller fragments without changing what the rock is made of or the minerals within it.
What is mechanical weathering?
A type of landscape that can trap sediment after it's been moved.
What is a rocky landscape?
A certain water feature where carried sediment is finally deposited.
What is a lake and pond?
The part of a valley where the ice of a glacier flows down and grinds the rock.
What is a valley floor?
An isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides.
What is a mesa?