Streams & Rivers
This type of landform is created by fast-flowing water in mountain streams
What is a V-Shaped valley?
This force is primarily responsible for creating ocean waves.
This landform is created when softer rock erodes before overlying harder rock in a river.
What is a waterfall?
In a river meander, erosion happens along this part of the curve where water moves faster.
This term refers to larger rocks pushed along the bottom of a stream.
What is bed load?
This process describes how sand moves in a zig-zag manner along a beach due to wave action.
What is longshore drift?
This flat area along a river where water goes when it overflows the banks.
What is a floodplain?
Which landform would have the most deposition? An alluvial fan or delta?
What is an alluvial fan?
When multiple streams come together, this is formed.
What is a river?
What is one type of landform created from wave erosion?
What is sea cliffs, sea caves, sea arches, headlands and sea stacks?
This formation occurs when a river meander gets cut off as the river takes a straighter course, leaving a curve behind.
What is an oxbow lake?
If a river is moving down a gradual slope, would the river be moving faster or slower than a steep slope?
What is slower?
This is what forms when rain drops in the same area, creating tiny grooves in the land that can fill with water.
What is a stream
What is one type of landform created from wave deposition?
What is beaches, spits and sandbars?
This landform deposits sand as the river spreads out and enters the ocean.
What is a delta?
This weathering process scrapes smaller sediment into larger sediment, causing the rocks to become smooth.
What is abrasion?
In a meander, what is the speed of the inside bend of the river and what is happening to the sediment?
What is moving slower and depositing sediment?
Waves pull back into the ocean in a straight path, doing what to the sediment?
What is eroding the sediment?
These sediments in a stream consists of small rocks that get picked up in the water.
What is suspended load?
If waves are crashing onto land, which area would experience more erosion based on elevation?
1. 2ft
2. 10ft
3. 7 ft
What is the land with 2 ft in elevation?