Erosion
Glaciers Shape the Land
Water in motion
Introduction
Deposition and Ice in motion.
100
Muddy water.
What is a product of erosion?
100
Material deposited from the glacier.
What is a moraine?
100
Rapid movement of rocks, fragment, and soil
What happens when landslides occur?
100
Farming of crops.
What are plains usually used for?
100
Large bodies of ice.
What is a glacier?
200
Heavy rainfall.
What can cause erosion?
200
Block water from melting from the glacier.
What can a moraine do?
200
Rainfall.
What is the number one thing that causes landslides?
200
Thick fertile soils and grassy meadows.
plains have?.....
200
Slowly.
Glaciers move very..
300
Gradual or sudden.
Changes can be...?
300
A bowl-shaped basin formed by erosion at the start of a mountain glacier.
What is a cirque?
300
A flat layer of sediment.
What is a flood plain?
300
Flat raised land.
What is a plateau?
300
Downhill.
What way does a glacier move?
400
The movement of rock particles or soil from one place to another.
What is erosion?
400
A sharpened peak.
What shape is a horn?
400
Rocks are broken down and land is eroded.
What happens when waves hit cliffs and shores?
400
Lava and rocks.
What are plateaus made of?
400
Erode the surface of earth.
Glaciers can?...
500
Gravity, ice, wind, and water.
What are the agents of erosion?
500
A peak formed by the glacial action of three cirques on a mountain top.
What is a Horn.
500
Water.
What is the one of the most powerful agents of erosion?
500
A triangular deposit of sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
500
Dropping of sediment.
What is deposition?
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